As Schumpeter noted, since the publication of the Essay on Population, Malthus has been “the subject of equally unreasonable, contradictory appraisals.

He was a benefactor of humanity. He was a fiend. He was a profound thinker. He was a dunce Marx

poured on him his vitriolic wrath. Keynes glorified him” (1954: 480-81).

Source: Faccarello G., Kurz H.D.(eds.). Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Volume 1: Great Economists Since Petty and Boisguilbert. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,2016. — 813 p.. 2016

As Schumpeter noted, since the publication of the Essay on Population, Malthus has been “the subject of equally unreasonable, contradictory appraisals.

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