For 10 points, name this economist and author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.
This man opposed the Poor Laws, and unlike most of his contemporaries, supported the Corn Laws, believing that they would increase domestic production by discouraging importation. He defined rent as the surplus created by the difference between the most and least productive land in one work, and criticized Say's law in another. Along with An Inquiry Into the Nature and Progress of Rent and his 1820 work Principles of Political Economy, his best-known work argues that war, famine, and pestilence would result from the population increasing geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically. For 10 points, name this economist and author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.
This man opposed the Poor Laws, and unlike most of his contemporaries, supported the Corn Laws, believing that they would increase domestic production by discouraging importation.
Thomas {Malthus}