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 ...

Just over 200 years ago, a British cleric, Thomas Malthus published a book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he examined the relationship between population growth and the increase in ...

The dynamics of land utilization -- The interdependence of land use and technical change -- Labour productivity under long-fallow and short-fallow systems -- Carrying capacity of land and productivity ...

Roy Scranton received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An ...