To my friends in the economics profession and business journalists: why do you keep insisting on single-entry bookkeeping? Your forecasts of bulging inflation and sinking recession are way too gloomy.

Why famine? Why golf? If so, you are in good company: the problem of evil vexed St Augustine, preoccupied St Thomas Aquinas and worried Thomas Malthus. But do not worry about them. Because Ross ...

The book essentially said the global system cannot support present rates of economic and population growth beyond the year 2100, painting a dreary, Malthusian picture of the world. While on one ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, a popular economist, published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In this essay, Malthus argued that population grew geometrically while food production grew ...

Whilst the EU equivalent of National Insurance is not currently on the table, the trend has been firmly in the direction of imposing these measures on the whole bloc. The evidence for this is in the ...

Food prices are on a wild ride, with eggs, chicken, and grains experiencing fluctuations due to supply chain disruptions, rising production costs, and unpredictable weather conditions. The latest ...

In this way, European society eluded the Malthusian trap, and this enabled new tens of millions— hundreds of millions really—to survive, and it enabled the population as a whole to escape the hopeless ...