THOMAS ROBEBT MALTHUS, the economist, author of the “Essay on the Principle of Population”, died a hundred years ago on December 23, 1834, and the centenary was celebrated in Cambridge on March 2.

The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers. In increasingly crowded cities, ordinary people ...

“IN October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for ...

Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give ...