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 ...

Two centuries ago an English philosopher named Thomas Malthus reached some nightmarish conclusions about the future of humanity that guaranteed him an immortal role in one of the most emotionally ...

In 1798, when the world’s population was approaching 1 billion and the population of the British Isles was 16 million, an Englishman named Thomas Robert Malthus made the dire prediction that, like ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After two centuries of abuse and misrepresentation by everyone from Romantic poets to capitalist fundamentalist philosophers, Thomas Malthus—mild-mannered English clergyman and author of An Essay on ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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” ...