(Musical break.) MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, I'm Ben Wattenberg. It was in June of1798 that the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus wrote his essay on ThePrinciple of Population arguing that human ...

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 ...

It was in this pivotal year that Darwin, back from his voyage on the Beagle and trying to understand the forces that drove the origin of new species, read the works of Thomas Malthus, a parson and ...

Many will have heard of the 18th-century English economist by the name of Thomas Malthus. He is remembered today mostly for his bleak outlook on humanity's future, believing poverty would forever ...

The great American thinker was able to write his shimmering essays thanks to a healthy income from dividends and speaking ...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On the ...

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1993)) Deepa Dhanraj Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India, it takes on the ...

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it. There’s a line in ...

Paul Bandey (Thomas Robert Malthus)Paul Barrett (David Ricardo)Angélique Ahier (Production Assitant)Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar (Self)Arnaud Apotheker (Self)John Cavanagh (Self)Jacques ...