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The 29 pages that link to Thomas Robert Malthus, each with the reason it gives.

• Charles DarwinRelated: Malthus’s account of scarcity helped Darwin formulate competition for survival.

• Adam SmithNarrower topic: Malthus developed political economy after Smith and helped shape its later classical tradition.

• Social DarwinismRelated: His account of scarcity influenced evolutionary thinking about competition for resources.

• Carrying capacityRelated: His argument helped shape later debates about population limits and carrying capacity.

• Economic growthRelated: His population theory posed a major challenge to expectations of lasting gains in living standards.

• Classical economicsBroader topic: His population theory challenged optimistic expectations about sustained gains in living standards.

• David RicardoRelated: His disagreements with Ricardo over value, rent, and demand shaped both economists’ arguments.

• On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: Malthus’s account of population pressure helped Darwin formulate the struggle for existence.

• Robert OwenCompared with: Owen disputed Malthusian explanations of poverty, blaming social arrangements rather than population pressure.

• Herbert SpencerRelated: Malthusian competition influenced the evolutionary reasoning Spencer applied to society.

• DarwinismRelated: Malthus's account of competition helped Darwin recognize a struggle for existence.

• Economic rentRelated: Malthus debated the causes and social role of rent with Ricardo.

• MalthusianismRelated: His 1798 argument gave the theory its classic formulation.

• Diminishing returnsRelated: Malthus used diminishing agricultural productivity to explain pressure on living standards.

• James MillCompared with: Malthus’s population argument challenged optimistic assumptions in political economy that Mill discussed.

• Population controlRelated: His argument helped frame population growth as a political problem requiring restraint.

• Henry GeorgeCompared with: George challenged Malthusian explanations that treated poverty as an unavoidable result of population pressure.

• Logistic functionRelated: Malthusian exponential growth provided the contrast that motivated Verhulst’s bounded model.

• CornucopianismCompared with: Cornucopianism developed partly as a response to Malthusian predictions of recurring scarcity.

• Poor Law Amendment Act 1834Related: Malthusian arguments informed reformers’ concerns that relief encouraged population growth and dependency.

• An Essay on the Principle of PopulationBroader topic: He wrote the essay and repeatedly revised its argument.

• Progress and PovertyRelated: George challenges the Malthusian explanation that population pressure makes poverty unavoidable.

• The Malthusian trapRelated: His account gives the trap its name and proposes population pressure as its engine.

• William PlayfairRelated: Playfair’s charts entered debates about population, resources, and economic change that Malthus also influenced.

• Frank HerbertRelated: Malthusian pressures echo in Herbert’s attention to scarcity, population, and resource control.

• Iron law of wagesRelated: His account of population pressure helped shape the iron law’s central feedback.

• Jean-Baptiste SayCompared with: Malthus challenged Say’s confidence that production creates adequate demand.

• Human overpopulationBroader topic: His argument gave enduring form to fears of population-driven scarcity.

• World populationRelated: His argument shaped early debates about whether population growth could be sustained.