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In the last two chapters of his most famous work, this thinker digresses into a discussion of theodicy in which he asserts that the world is a "mighty process for awakening matter." This thinker recommended making streets narrower, encouraged building near marshes, and advised that people not seek cures for "ravaging diseases" because the masses are incapable of exercising moral restraint. The simple exponential growth model is named for this man, as is a catastrophe representing a return to subsistence farming. In the best-known work by this author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, he negatively contrasted the arithmetic growth of subsistence with the geometric growth of population. For 10 points, identify this gloomy, thinker who wrote Principles of Political Economy and An Essay on the Principle of Population.
In the last two chapters of his most famous work, this thinker digresses into a discussion of theodicy in which he asserts that the world is a "mighty process for awakening matter.
Thomas Robert {Malthus}