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Tony Wrigley Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley ( born 17 August 1931 ) , commonly known as Tony Wrigley , is a historical demographer . Wrigley and Peter Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964 . Wrigleys scholarly works focus on demographic history , and the long-term causes and effects of urbanization and industrialization . Among his many publications , Wrigley is known for the book Continuity , Chance and Change , published in 1988 , in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth . His most celebrated work , however , is The Population History of England , 1541-1871 , published in 1981 with co-author Roger S . Schofield . Wrigley completed undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Peterhouse , Cambridge between 1949-1958 . He was elected as a Fellow of Peterhouse in the latter year and held office until 1979 , when he became an Emeritus Fellow there and also Professor of Population Studies at the London School of Economics . He ceased the professorship in 1988 to become a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford and returned to Cambridge as Professor of Economic History for the period 1994-1997 . As of 2019 , he was an Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse . He was Master of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge from 1994 until 2000 , and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980 , serving as president from 1997 to 2001 . He was the recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal and Prize awarded by the British Academy and in the same year became a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College . In 1960 , Wrigley married Mieke Spelberg , with whom by 1972 he had three daughters and a son . Publications . - Industrial growth and population change ; a regional study of the coalfield areas of north-west Europe in the later nineteenth century , Cambridge University Press 1961 , - An introduction to English historical demography from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century , editor,Weidenfeld & Nicolson ( London ) 1966 - Population and history , Weidenfeld & Nicolson ( London ) 1969 , - Nineteenth-century society essays in the use of quantitative methods for the study of social data , editor , Cambridge University Press 1972 , - Population private choice and public policy , The Lindsey Press ( London ) 1972 , The Essex Hall lecture - Identifying people in the past , Arnold ( London ) 1973 , - Towns in Societies ( editor , 1978 ) - People , cities , and wealth : the transformation of traditional society , Blackwell 1987 , - The population history of England , 1541-1871 : a reconstruction , Harvard University Press ( Cambridge , Mass ) 1981 , - People Cities and Wealth : The Transformation of Traditional Society , Blackwell Publishers 1989 , - Continuity , Chance and Change : The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England , Cambridge University Press 1990 , - Poverty , Progress , and Population , Cambridge University Press 2004 , - English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 , with R . S . Davies , J . E . Oeppen and R . S . Schofield , Cambridge University Press 2005 , - Industrial Growth and Population Change , Cambridge University Press 2007 , - Energy and the English Industrial Revolution , Cambridge University Press 2010 , - The Path to Sustained Growth . Englands Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution . Cambridge University Press , 2016 , . External links . - Personal page at Cambridge University Department of Geography - interviewed by Alan Macfarlane , 23 July 2007 ( video )