Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist best known for his theories about population growth. Learn more about overpopulation and the Malthusian growth model.

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 ...

The good people at Kite & Key Media launched their fall series of cool videos with one taking Thomas Malthus and Paul Erlich and other Doomsday Apostles to the intellectual woodshed. For centuries ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798 ...

Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world. Nick Gillespie | From the ...

Darwin and Malthus: The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, ... read the works of Thomas Malthus, ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in ...

When the world population crossed the 1 billion mark, economist Thomas Malthus warned that famine was inevitable. It took humans 250,000 years to reach a population of one-half billion and only an ...

Thomas Robert Malthus was born into a clerical family in Surrey in 1766. Neither rich nor poor, the family was of the middling sort that will be familiar to any who have read the novels of his ...

The carcass of a dead goat is seen in a drought zone near Doolow, Somalia, on June 15, 2022. (Luis Tato for The Washington Post) Ever since Thomas Malthus argued just over 200 years ago that ...