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More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from human ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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” ...

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(The Conversation) — The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues. (The ...