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 ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

SIR - Economists use models to simplify things and to illustrate ideas. Malthus did it, just as many others (Economics focus, May 17th). Darwin understood Malthus’s work and used it to motivate “On ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Thomas Robert Malthus is remembered for the gloomiest theory proposed in just about any discipline. The story begins in 1793, when the English journalist and philosopher ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Southern Economic Journal features original, refereed scholarly articles in all areas of economics as well as contributions on ...