Progressives have repeated the Malthus theme of overpopulation for six decades. However, the real demographic problem facing ...

Why would anyone think there were too many people back when the book was published in 1843? The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 ...

It was in this pivotal year that Darwin, back from his voyage on the Beagle and trying to understand the forces that drove the origin of new species, read the works of Thomas Malthus, a parson and ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in ...

(Luis Tato for The Washington Post) Ever since Thomas Malthus argued just over 200 years ago that population growth would outstrip “the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man ...

Even though the world has had its fair share of economic crises since the millennium, the proportion of the population in employment is showing signs of rising rather than falling. An end to shorter ...

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 ...

Thomas Malthus, 1798 An Essay on the Principle of Population Often, there is a cyclical relationship between the populations of predators and their prey. This keeps the populations of both species ...