The Life And Writings Of Thomas R. Malthus (Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints)
ComingAnarchy.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Yet another post by occasional guest contributor on topics of theology and history, Alfred Russel Wallace. The western world played a central role in developing today’s modern political and philosophical scholarship from the 17th through 19th centuries. Many of these influential thinkers were ordained as priests. One of them was the Reverend Thomas Robert [...]
JustOneMinute (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The NY Times runs a long article on the limits of growth and the inevitable decline of humanity due to shortages of energy and vital commodities without ever mentioning the Club of Rome or Thomas Malthus. We laud their commitment...
The Oregon Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... The Economist's take: Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits THOMAS MALTHUS first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around then which made nonsense of his...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits THOMAS MALTHUS first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around then which made nonsense of his ideas. As industrialisation...
Productive Strategies (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Thomas Malthus ( 1766 – 1834) had a theory that continual increase in the world population would eventually cause food demand to outpace supply, and a collapse that would push the survivors back to subsistence farming conditions. Obviously, this hasn’t happened and there are a number of theories why. For example: Malthus’ theory is just flat [...]
Wrath of Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
From A Pictorial History of Terriers : At about the time that Reverend John Russell was picking up his first terrier, the Reverend Thomas Malthus was publishing his tract on human population growth , which was written as a defense of the Enclosure Movement. Malthus argued that nothing should be done to help the rural poor that were being shoved off the land and into the cities...
Thomas Paine's Corner (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Thomas Malthus and his legacy of euphemistic extermination programs by Frank Joseph Smecker 10/15/09 We are often told that we’ve exceeded our carrying capacity here on Earth (or are arriving at that calamitous denouement of the story of civilization in no time soon). It is very true that we’ve reached our carrying capacity, this planet cannot healthily sustain so many people...
Simon Kapenda Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Adam Smith, Scotland (1723-1791) David Ricardo, England (1772-1823 Thomas Malthus, England (1766-1834) John Stuart Mill, England (1806-1873) Karl Marx, Germany (1818-1883) Leon Walras, France (1834-1910) Alfred Marshall, England (1842-1924) Thorstein Veblen, USA (1857-1929) John Maynard Keynes, England (1883-1946) Irving Fisher, USA (1867-1947) More at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco...
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... farming (including such luminaries as Gladstone, William Cobbett, Arthur Young, and of course Thomas Malthus). It was definitely clear then that potatoes allowed you to support a vast population of tenant farmers for fractions of what it cost before, when most peasants ate bread. The other concern was that compared to bread, the potato was antisocial — there was no structured division...
Safehaven (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
October 13, 2009A Malthusian Check?by Richard Mills"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." ~ Thomas Robert MalthusIn 1798 32 year-old British economist Malthus anonymously published "An Essay on the Principle of Population" and in it he argued that human population's increase geometrically (1, 2, 4, 16...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... El Nino strikes, food supplies could get totally out of control in many countries. The Ghost of Thomas Malthus The U.N. calls the global food crisis a “silent tsunami” and faith in the ability of local and global commodity markets to fill 6.6 billion bellies, never mind the projected 2.7 billion more by 2050 (U.N. projections say the world’s population will peak...
BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... concerns over the last four decades; the second, whether it's useful. More than 200 years ago, Thomas Malthus gave us the first simple limits to growth argument, noting "the difficulty of subsistence" that "must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind" if the human population continued to grow "unchecked". So here we have limits in...
FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Writing in Scientific American David Biello presents the case that Thomas Malthus might be right after all. MALTHUSIAN DILEMMA: How to feed a human population expected to reach 9 billion...
