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

This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of our greatest thinkers. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) is best remembered today for his theories on th

Although Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertso

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