Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have been born in what is often still referred to as the Western World (Europe and North America) rarely appreciate the historical uniqueness of our ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Alan Weisman discussed Malthusian ideas of population, Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb and the Green Revolution. Alan Weisman discussed Malthusian ...
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.
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 ...
Have you played the fortune-cookie game? Add “in bed” to the end of your fortune. As in, “Beware the fury of a patient man” (in bed). Or “You will discover your hidden talents” (in bed). The same ...
Throughout mankind’s history there have been many undesirable occurrences. There have been numerous wars, pestilence, man-made and natural disasters. The current COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and ...
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Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today
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 ...
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 ...
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