Mason Gaffney wrote: "... but then, Malthus was not an economist ..."  
  
Perhaps, Gaffney would care to define an economist and who qualifies to   
be one.  
  
Why wouldn't the author of the "Principles of Political Economy" who was   
a "Professor of History and Political Economy" in the East India College   
at Hertfordshire, a frequent contributor on economic issues to the   
Westminster Review, the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, a noted   
co-discoverer of the classical doctrine of rent, and a frequent "sparing   
partner" with David Ricardo on economic issues be recognized as an   
economist?  
  
James Ahiakpor