The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers. In increasingly crowded cities, ordinary people struggled ...

(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 ...

Roy Scranton received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An ...