Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give a lecture on agricultural theories and practices earlier this month. Stone ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...
sailed around the world, saw species suited to their environments, related species in neighboring environments, fossils of extinct forms read economics (Malthus) and geology (Lyell) collected ...
Over the past five years, the world's population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more than ...
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Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today
No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that ...
Reviewed Works: Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment. Edited by Fred Magdoff, J. B. Foster, and F. H. Buttel. New York ...
This video from the 'Foundation For Economic Education' discusses why advocates of population control keep wrongly predicting doom, from 18th Century economist Thomas Malthus to the Stanford ...
If by fiat I had to identify the most consequential ideas in the history of science, good and bad, in the top 10 would be the 1798 treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, by English ...
TWO more thoughts on the Barclays Capital report on Malthus. The first was brought to mind by a chapter in Alan Beattie's excellent book*, False Economy; that much agricultural trade involves the ...
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