Question

Select the correct answer.

Read the following excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In it, a business owner named
Ebenezer Scrooge discusses the poor and working classes:
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus
population."
Think about what you have learned about various thinkers of the Industrial Revolution. Whose ideas
are reflected in the excerpt?
James Watt
O Adam Smith
O Thomas Malthus
O Robert Owen

Answer 1

Thomas Malthus

Step-by-step explanation:

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century English economist and philosopher known for his population growth model used to project population growth. His theory explains that food production is unable to feed the growing population and to limit the population they have to make strict limits on reproduction.

The discussion of Ebenezer Scrooge says that by dying, the high population of London would decrease which reflects the idea of Thomas Malthus on Industrial Revolution.

Hence, the correct answer is "Thomas Malthus".