ABSTRACT
Malthus is regarded as the first major economist to discuss the interaction between economic and population growth in a systematic manner, and his Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus, 1798) is still considered a classic on population, the economy and society and read widely as a Western Great Book. Since Malthus argued that population growth sets limits to economic growth due to resource constraints, the adjectives Malthusian and neo-Malthusian are widely used to characterize those who see population growth and resource constraints as barriers to economic development.
