Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give a lecture on agricultural theories and practices earlier this month. Stone ...

(The Conversation) — The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues. (The ...

Do I read the blogs by my fellow Brainstormers? Well, I do more or less. This summer, David Barash has made me feel so guilty about my lack of enthusiasm for the great outdoors that I have to reach ...

Over the past five years, the world's population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more than ...

SIR - It is widely understood that human ingenuity always overcomes “Malthusian limits” to food, resources, energy, and greenhouse-gas emissions, (Economics focus, May 17th), but Malthus’s work should ...

sailed around the world, saw species suited to their environments, related species in neighboring environments, fossils of extinct forms read economics (Malthus) and geology (Lyell) collected ...

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No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that ...