Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...

(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” ...

AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION AS IT AFFECTS THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY, WITH REMARKS ON THE SPECULATIONS OF MR. GODWIN, M. CONDORCET, AND OTHER WRITERS. BY THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS.

User-Created Clip by tgrane August 15, 2017 2013-10-27T15:26:28-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/364/1503514351.JPGAlan Weisman discussed Malthusian ideas of ...

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 ...

In recent years, many climate advocates have emphasized human population itself—as opposed to related factors such as consumption and technology—as the driving force behind environmental destruction.

Have you played the fortune-cookie game? Add “in bed” to the end of your fortune. As in, “Beware the fury of a patient man” (in bed). Or “You will discover your hidden talents” (in bed). The same ...

If by fiat I had to identify the most consequential ideas in the history of science, good and bad, in the top 10 would be the 1798 treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, by English ...