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 ...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond, New York: Viking, 592 pages, $29.95 In 1838 the founding father of modern biology, Charles Darwin, read the 1798 edition of the Rev ...

For as long as most of us can recall, there has been a debate over the limits to economic growth. It has been one of the more consistent threads in the whole fabric of speculation over the future of ...

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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 ROBEBT MALTHUS, the economist, author of the “Essay on the Principle of Population”, died a hundred years ago on December 23, 1834, and the centenary was celebrated in Cambridge on March 2.

Dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful," Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his celebrated, infamous Essay on Population in 1798. Malthus had a knack for the stark. The Essay began an intense ...

The History of Education Quarterly publishes: Articles Documents Debates on important issues in the history of education Retrospectives Research Notes Book Reviews Film Reviews Topics span the history ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand ...