Malthus

Still, in recent years, some part of Malthus's prediction has appeared to be coming true in the form of higher global food prices.

As it turned out, the last plagues great enough to put adent in global population had already happened when Malthus wrote.

Just as the significance of Malthus' observation had remained unnoticed until the time was ripe, so did Mendel's contribution.

Even Robert Malthus realised that there was such a thing as birth control.

Malthus, indeed, had vehemently opposed Ricardo's doctrine that it was impossible for effective demand to be deficient; but vainly.

Marx, who admired Malthus, was equally astonished by the emergence of the middle class. As he wrote in the "Communist Manifesto"

Population, as Malthus said, naturally tends to grow "geometrically, " or, as we would now say, exponentially.

of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism.

Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence .

Darwin read Malthus in 1838 and immediately realized how it applied to his own work.

Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence .

Then came Thomas Robert Malthus [1766-1834] with the discovery that nature does not provide the means of existence for everybody.

Given half a chance, Africa shows what Malthus himself underestimated: innovation.

So Malthus looks bearable even when he sits astride the apocalyptic horse of climate change.

Malthus gave the clue: man had to struggle for his food supply and to cope with his environment.

The conflicts of scarcity are not the same as the cataclysms of Malthus.

Have we beaten Malthus? Two centuries after his work, we still do not really know.

Malthus argued that natural populations grow at an exponential rate, whereas the increase in food supply is linear.

Marx, who admired Malthus, was equally astonished by the emergence of the middle class.

As an undergraduate, taking a course in the history of economic thought and reading Malthus.

Malthus argued that populations are always limited by the food supply.

He was influenced by Thomas Malthus' work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight.

Thomas Malthus is remembered mainly for his theories on population growth.

The background to evolutionary theory lies in the work of Thomas Malthus on population explosion.

Although Malthus ' most dire predictions have not come true, many of his fears are still with us.

As Malthus would have discovered, man's inventiveness is easily underestimated.

Malthus observed that population was held in check because not every individual would survive to reproduce.

Of course, as Thomas Malthus famously underestimated, rising demand for food is not bad so long as supply keeps pace.

He's in his study, it's October of 1838, and he's reading Malthus, actually, on population.

Back to Adam Smith, there is Light at the end of the tunnel--Review on "Beyond Malthus"

The cultural conditions for defying Malthus were taking shape elsewhere too.

Malthus thought that by diverting labor to manufacturing and trade, China would run the risk of running short of food stocks.

Poor Ehrlich. Maybe next decade . . . What about Malthus?

Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?

In spite or perhaps because of such language, thebook was a best seller, as Malthus's had been.

In 1798 Thomas Malthus wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population" .

And it still faces the classic constraints, identified by Thomas Malthus in the 19th century, of land and water.

Seven billion of us soon, nine billion in 2045. Let's hopethat Malthus was right about our ingenuity.

Which brings us back to Malthus.

But I'm moving past Malthus. Because I think that we just might be about 150 years from a kind of new enlightenment.

Nonsense, say Malthus's heirs.

Or perhaps Malthus's ghost will come back to haunt us, even if not this Halloween.

In the two centuries after Malthus declared thatpopulation couldn't continue to soar, that's exactly what it did.

If we can make it through the next 150 years, I think that your great-great-grandchildren will forget all about Malthus.

Reconsideration of Malthus's Ethic Thought of Population and Economy

Theory of Population of Thomas Robert Malthus

Are Malthus's Predicted 1798 Food Shortages Coming True? (Extended version)

FOOD AND THE SPECTRE OF MALTHUS