On the positive side of the ledger, it inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to work out the mechanics of natural selection based on Malthus's observation that populations tend to ...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ... Reading Malthus was a "eureka" moment for Darwin, who declared in his autobiography, "I had at last got a theory by which to work." ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy ... hundreds of millions would starve to death. The theory was that if food production is growing at X rate and ...

Chris Dillow writes: Malthus’s theory was not about the general price ... but there is no limit to human ingenuity. That is why Malthus remains as wrong today as he was two centuries ago.

When Thomas Malthus laid out this vision in 1798 ... Paul Solman: And just to be specific, you get more people why and how? Greg Clark: Because every time you improve living standards, people ...

That theory, of course, was none other than natural selection, the driving force of evolution. Though scholars have debated just how influential Malthus was in Darwin's thinking, there can be no ...

Thomas Robert Malthus was an influential British economist best known for his theory on population growth, outlined in his 1798 book "An Essay on the Principle of Population." In it, Malthus ...

A child is born. For almost every parent, everywhere and always, the entry of a new person into the world is a welcome wonder. But economists generally have a different outlook on births.