This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most fam

Hollander investigates the relation of Malthusian economics to that of the other great classicists - particularly Smith, Ricardo, J.B. Say, and the French physi

The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numb

Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted

Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and a