What did malthus study?

Thomas Malthus was a Reverend who studied English. He was popular for his theory of rent. He influenced the economy with his views on Demographics, as he was afraid population growth would not allow a utopian society to emerge.

He valued long term economic stability over short term economic prosperity. he believed and with good reason that population would out strip the worlds food supply ......other views of Thomas Malthus, poverty and suffering are unavoidable. he also wrote and preached that only war, famine ,disease and moral restraint are the most important checks on population growth. he was a pioneer in preaching Birth Control, which later started to gain momentum