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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” ...

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have a story to sell you: Amid a scramble for housing in the United States, the real problem is the presence of immigrants. Americans “cannot ignore the impact that the ...

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 ...

There is one thing that can be said for certain about the size of the world population: it is never exactly right. I spent much of my youth being warned of the dangers of overpopulation. There were ...

Throughout mankind’s history there have been many undesirable occurrences. There have been numerous wars, pestilence, man-made and natural disasters. The current COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and ...