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 ...

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 ...

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

According to Vaclav Smil, the problem in much of the world is not too little food but too much, which leads to high rates of food waste.

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

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

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. In increasingly crowded cities ...

Malthus thought that rapid population growth would outstrip the food supply, leading to violence, famine and disease. Good times would always be followed by bad times. When there is surplus population ...

When the world population crossed the 1 billion mark, economist Thomas Malthus warned that famine was inevitable. It took humans 250,000 years to reach a population of one-half billion and only an ...

Dismal science is a term coined by Scottish writer, essayist, and historian Thomas Carlyle to describe the discipline of economics.

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 ...