As mentioned by Hung during class, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus was a British scholar who lived in the 18th Century. He wrote explicitly on the theory of population and believed that "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". This is stated in his An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Can anyone find out more about him and his views regarding population? Do his theories have any value in this age and time? What can we gain by understanding his views on the human population and how it affects growth?
As you are thinking about this and penning down your comments, try to link it back to the concept of scarcity! Feel free to add in comments with regards to this topic!!
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