The good people at Kite & Key Media launched their fall series of cool videos with one taking Thomas Malthus and Paul Erlich and other Doomsday Apostles to the intellectual woodshed. For centuries ...

Population growth will increasingly be driven by migration rather than birth and death rates. Countries and sub-national ...

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist best known for his theories about population growth. Learn more about overpopulation and the Malthusian growth model.

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 ...

More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from ...

Malthus would have regarded today’s 8 billion as, at best, impossible and, at worst, apocalyptic. But the reality is also better than Malthus imagined because food production grew faster than ...

Darwin and Malthus: The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers.

It is not difficult to imagine that the world in which Rev. MALTHUS lived in the closing years of the eighteenth century was radically different from the world that now provides accommodation for ...

Malthus hoped that people could be encouraged to have fewer children by postponing marriage or becoming celibate. Then good times could add to their standard of living. He didn’t anticipate the ...

Dismal science is a term coined by Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle to describe the discipline of economics. Dismal science is said to have been inspired by T. R. Malthus' gloomy ...