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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION AS IT AFFECTS THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY, WITH REMARKS ON THE SPECULATIONS OF MR. GODWIN, M. CONDORCET, AND OTHER WRITERS. BY THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS.

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 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 ...

Yes, of course, Tom Hanks is out flogging his latest movie Inferno, the central plot of which involves an evil scientist who attempts to release a virus to kill off the world's excess population.

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 ...