Thomas Malthus

The resource-constraint doomsayers throughout history, such as Thomas Malthus in the late 1700s and many in the modern environmental movement, have, it seems, been wrong.

Andrew Winston: The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change 2010

The resource-constraint doomsayers throughout history, such as Thomas Malthus in the late 1700s and many in the modern environmental movement, have, it seems, been wrong.

Andrew Winston: The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change 2010

The resource-constraint doomsayers throughout history, such as Thomas Malthus in the late 1700s and many in the modern environmental movement, have, it seems, been wrong.

Andrew Winston: The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change 2010

Thomas Malthus, who in 1798 had suggested breeding so that, "a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men."

Genetics journal reveals dark past 2011

Answer: He was weighing in on one of the central economic debates of his time, the one that raged between Thomas Malthus and one of the disciples of Adam Smith.

A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011

Ever since Thomas Malthus first predicted that a rising population would provoke famine, gloomy predictions about food shortages have always eventually been confounded by technological advances, which have ensured that supply has kept pace with demand.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Yes, there are constraints - some of them from environmental regulation - but the notion that natural resources will become severely limited in the long term is as flawed as the contention of Thomas Malthus in the early 19th century that population would outstrip food supply.

James K. Glassman on the pros and cons of buying commodities 2011

Stephens: Thomas Malthus, early-19th-century British philosopher, who thought the population would outstrip its own ability to feed itself.

Failure by Committee 2011

These days it's von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Thomas Malthus on beaches from Ocean City, Md., to the northern peninsula of Michigan to Santa Monica, Calif.

Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

Answer: He was weighing in on one of the central economic debates of his time, the one that raged between Thomas Malthus and one of the disciples of Adam Smith.

A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011