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 ...

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 ...

What is relevant about these quaint socialists is precisely that they were capable of confronting head-on the purveyors of ...

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: ...

In the recently published “Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care,” Giorgos Kallis tackles weighty and expansive topics in merely 156 pages. One cannot help but wonder if ...

When the Reverend Thomas Malthus predicted in 1798 that the booming population would doom the world to famine and disaster, he had no idea how wrong he would prove to be. Two centuries on, as the ...

Among the demands of James Lee, the deranged gunman who rampaged through the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Washington, D.C., before being shot and killed late Wednesday afternoon, was a ...

If you’re looking for a drinking game (while alternately looking to cut back on your drinking), take a swig every time someone speaking from the podium at the Republican National Convention says the ...