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 ...

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 ...

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.

Robert Mayhew helpfully dusts off Malthus and recounts his influence up to the present day, explaining why, with his one big idea, he became such an influential figure in European and North American ...