Malthusian population theory involves arithmetic growth in food supply and exponential population growth. This theory was first published in Thomas Robert Malthus's article, An Essay on the Principle of Population. Malthus believed that population could be controlled in order to balance the food supply, Malthus, Thomas - An Essay on the Principal of Population EN, 1798, 140p. This is how An Essay on Population, by the British political economist and demographer THOMAS ROBERT, appeared. MALTHUS 1766-1834. Although it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years thereafter, it remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of,