Match the thinkers with their ideas. predicted that population growth would far exceed the food supply stressed the idea that a free market needs to function without government interference proposed a society where workers are treated fairly and children are taught to read and write stated that the “invisible hand” of the market would benefit both producers and consumers focused on providing education to children instead of letting them work in factories suggested that if poor families had fewer children, the food supply would meet the needs of the population Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, Robert Owen