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

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

Malthus, at least in his first edition, foresaw a human population always hungry and therefore malnourished. To be fair to Malthus, ...

Malthus was the most abused man of the age, says his biographer, James Bonar, put down as "a man who defended smallpox, slavery and child murder, who denounced soup kitchens, early marriage and parish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nation Newspaper A return to Malthus. In the course of some research into the influenza pandemic which shook the world to its core in the immediate aftermath of World War I, I was a little ...