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A 7 page paper on the eighteenth-century British economist. Following an argument over what he felt to be the unrealistically rosy progressivism of Godwin and Condorcet, Malthus wrote an essay on the Principle of Population which essentially founded the study of demographics and has continued to exert influence down to the present day. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of very few palls over the great landscape of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century optimism, and earned for him the singular title of the "dismal economist." Thomas Malthus was born
in 1766 near Guildford, Surrey, England. He received his education at Jesus College, part of the University of Cambridge. Following the general trend of the times, he went into the
ministry, becoming the curate of Albury in 1798. Apparently the religious life did not agree with him, because in 1805 he left Albury to become a professor of political economy
and modern history at the staff college of the East India Company. It is significant that this move propelled him into a long tradition of British scholars- including James Mill
and his son John Stuart Mill-who received their steady paycheck from the East India Company. It is interesting to note that although the East India Company seemed obsessed with compiling
statistics and spinning theories about the economic state of what we would now call the Third World, none of the aforementioned economists ever set foot in India. Galbraith notes that
James Mill produced a well-respected study of the British influence on India, which included a critique of Hindu epics he had never read (Galbraith, 32). The East India Company staff
apparently felt no compunction about basing their theories on data gained from locales with which they were entirely unfamiliar-a mistake that would trip up Malthus as well. The prevailing economic
theory at the time was shaped not only by the laissez-faire views of Adam Smith, but by theorists who glorified the class struggles of the French Revolution. (Buchholz 226). William
Godwin in England and the Marquis de Condorcet in France idealized human progress, and held what seemed to Malthus unreasonably rosy views of societys natural perfectibility. Godwin asserted that
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