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', ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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.

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 ...