Malthus’s Contributions to Human Understanding Many historians of economic thought have pointed out the various weaknesses, exaggerations, inconsistencies and factual errors in Malthus’s argument and ...

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 human ...

This video from the 'Foundation For Economic Education' discusses why advocates of population control keep wrongly predicting doom, from 18th Century economist Thomas Malthus to the Stanford ...

Organization & Environment aims to publish rigorous and impactful research on the management of organizations and its implications for the sustainability and flourishing of the social, natural and ...

Today, the “dismal science,” as well as scientists and policy makers throughout the developed world are dealing with an ...

Current demographic studies are based on the Malthusian principle of population, which makes a direct extrapolation of the natural law of population of the animal kingdom to the human system. This is ...

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.

Thomas Malthus, the 18th century English cleric, painted a dire picture of the consequences of population growth. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, he predicted a bleak future ...