Thomas Robert Malthus was a famous 18th-century British economist known for the population growth philosophies outlined in his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, Malthus theorized that populations would continue expanding until growth is stopped or reversed by disease, famine, war, or calamity. He is also known for developing an exponential formula used to forecast population growth, which is currently known as the Malthusian growth model.
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