Malthus in Smith Clothing

Marine Conservation: Moving Beyond Malthus

A new study has shown that maximum overfishing of coral reefs occurs among countries at intermediate levels of socio-economic development; can managers and policy makers help countries dependent on these ecosystems avoid the resulting poverty traps?

Malthus to Solow.

"A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also explains the industrial revolution, which is the transition from an era when per capita incomes are stagnant to one with sustained growth.... [The authors] use a ...

Viewpoint: Sustainability: Malthus revisited?

The sustainability debate concerns whether the world will experience stable or improving living standards for the foreseeable future, or whether the current trajectory will overtax the natural environment, leading to a ‘crash’ in living standards. This paper selectively reviews relevant research, focusing on both ecological concerns and technological progress, and asks whether sustainability wo...

Malthus, medicine, and morality

together, the whole of this book is much greater than the sum of the eleven articles. This is not just because Hunter has slightly amended the original papers to add cross-references to the others, although this is undoubtedly useful, and off-sets the inevitable repetition resulting from their original composition as separate pieces. The book is greater than the sum of its parts becauseHunter s...

Darwin, Malthus, and selection.