Malthusian pessimism was singled out as the most vulnerable expression of the dominant, classical school of economics. Boston idealists, who saw the Malthusian concept as `a curb to all reform', ...

In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, a popular economist, published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In this essay, Malthus argued that population grew geometrically while food production grew ...

Sociologists remind us of the Malthusian theory based on his observation of conditions in England in the early 1800s; Malthus argued that the available farmland was insufficient to feed the increasing ...

Re: C.F. Runge's letter of March 12 ["Apply Science to Population," in response to the writer's Feb. 27 letter "Humans Overpopulate Relative to Ecosystem"] discrediting the Malthusian Theory of 1798: ...

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 ...

Mum and dad had just gone on vacation and I was left at home with my elder brother to occupy the house in their unavoidable absence. Our soup- pot had just gone dry the day before and was begging for ...

The Malthusian trap or Malthusian check refers to the theory that as the human population grows there is increasing pressure on earth’s resources, which in turn acts as a check on the further rise in ...

The apocalyptic flavor of President Barack Obama’s Arctic speech bears an uneasy resemblance to the work of Thomas Malthus written over 200 years ago. Each outlines a model of how things are going to ...

Mention the name “Malthus” and you are met with a storm of abuse. The media elite, protected from nature in their urban bubbles, never tire of pronouncing Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the ...