Introduction

 The purpose of this work is to assess the intellectual status of Malthus’s macroeconomics, and to investigate the charge that his macroeconomics is incoherent, illogical, and not relevant or useful to current economic problems. It asks whether his macroeconomics is more than a series of ad hoc observations, and whether his macroeconomics was as important as his views on population. Eighteen alleged deficiencies are listed.