Malthus’s Political Views in 1798: a ‘Foxite’ Whig?

Nobuhiko Nakazawa

History of Economics Review, 2012, vol. 56, issue 1, 14-28

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine Thomas Robert Malthus’s early political views. He was an earnest sympathiser with Charles James Fox and his opposition party who regarded themselves as the defenders of English traditional civil and religious liberties. However, he was not simply a Foxite Whig. While Fox despised political economy for its speculative nature, Malthus admired Adam Smith’s new economic science for its practical use. As a ‘scientific’ Foxite Whig, he endeavoured to add the vocabulary of political economy to that of the Foxite circle. His first Essay on the Principle of Population testified the birth of a new Whiggism by going beyond the linguistic tradition of the Foxite politics of the late 1790s.

Date: 2012
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