English economist. many of his ideas and writings were about population growth exceeding the food supply. these writings would influence many political debates, the writings in the press, and even literature of the time period
question 4 options:

queen victoria

charles dickens

charles darwin

thomas malthus

The correct answer is: "Thomas Malthus"

Thomas Malthus (1766 - 1834) was the author of the economic models which stated that, up to a point, the pace of growth of the world's population would exceed its capacity of producing food (given a fixed endownment of resources for such production and some specific technology level). This scenario would trigger demographic crises and population checks in the future, and people would even die for starvation until the balance could be restored.

He did not consider, though, that the endowment of resources and the technology could be enlargened and improved through innovation and scientific procedures, and how that would lead to productivity gains and to the production of more than enough food to feed everyone on earth (at least enough food in terms of quantities). The fact that nowadays not everybody is properly fed in the world, does not answer to a lack of food produced but to a wrong manner of distributing it.

the first historical instance of china engaging in internationalism was during the han dynasty.[1] at the start of the han dynasty, the huns in the north were attacking the frontiers of han and trying to obtain riches. emperor wu of han wanted to gain an alliance with a country called dayuezhi so the two countries could join together and fight against the huns.[2] to obtain this alliance, emperor wu sent zhang qian to the west to establish economic and cultural connections.[2] history records that during the han dynasty there were four primary avenues of contact between china and europe. they included the northern land route, the central land route, the southern sea route, and the far southern sea route.[1] the most famous of these routes is the central land route, or the classical silk road, comprising a network of roads stretching from northwest china to the ports of syria and the black sea, which passed through the oasis of the turkestans and northern persia.[1] the silk road was significant for chinese emperors because it provided dominance over central asia by developing resources and provided new markets for the export of china's most valuable resources.[1]