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

One of the more wrong-headed predictions of a famous 19 century thinker, Thomas Malthus, was that because world population would grow more rapidly than food production, mankind faced a bleak ...

Thomas Robert Malthus was born with a harelip and is said to have refused to have his portrait painted for many years. He rose to become one of the most eminent men of his day, ...

The great demographer and economist Thomas Malthus was 23 years old the last time a British summer was this rain-soaked, which was in 1789. Don't count out Malthus - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

Two centuries ago an English philosopher named Thomas Malthus reached some nightmarish conclusions about the future of humanity that guaranteed him an immortal role in one of the most emotionally ...

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 ...

Today, Malthus has about the same reputation as the Luddites. But don’t let that fool you: he was a brilliant economist, and he was right . That is, he was right about all of human history right ...