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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video from the 'Foundation For Economic Education' discusses why advocates of population control keep wrongly predicting doom, from 18th Century economist Thomas Malthus to the Stanford ...

Over the past five years, the world's population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more than ...

The great demographer and economist Thomas Malthus was 23 years old the last time a British summer was this rain-soaked, which was in 1789. The consequences of excessive rainfall in the late 18th ...

Thomas Malthus' 200-year-old argument that people are poor because they lack self-discipline continues to frame U.S. welfare policy despite substantial evidence to the contrary, say two sociologists ...

Are there too many of us? The fear that we’ve overpopulated the planet can drive people to distraction or worse. A few weeks ago, a man named James Jay Lee arrived at the Discovery Channel’s ...

(The Conversation) — The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues. (The ...