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

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

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

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