Comments on: Book review – An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition

By: Book review – Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:24:59 +0000

[…] of Population was originally published in 1798, followed by a much-reworked second edition in 1803. Yale University Press reissued it with supporting essays four years after this book. To understand its stormy reception, Mayhew starts with two chapters […]

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By: Book review – Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:38:33 +0000

[…] having reviewed both the 1803 edition of Malthus’s essay and Mayhew’s biography, Kallis’s take on his work was an eye-opener for me. I can see […]

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By: Book review – More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What Happens Next | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:08:52 +0000

[…] he first provides some history and background. Starting, as one must, with Malthus’s famous Essay on the Principle of Population, McAfee highlights how population growth was kept in check by food supply for the longest time. […]

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By: Book review – Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:13:08 +0000

[…] in 1803. Yale University Press reissued it with supporting essays four years after this book, see my review here. To understand its stormy reception, Mayhew starts with two chapters sketching the life and economy […]

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By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 03 May 2019 15:56:45 +0000

[…] chapters contain no graphs.) They scoff at the classics, such as Thomas Malthus (see my review of An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition – “wrong” and “hopelessly flawed” in their words), The Population Bomb […]

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By: Book review – Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:28:25 +0000

[…] for the Twenty-First Century) and Malthus’s ideas on overpopulation (see my review of his An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition), the discovery of genetics and DNA were still many decades away. But once these had been made, […]

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By: Book review – The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:21:04 +0000

[…] seems so caught up in his systems studies that he barely mentions overpopulation. Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population is referenced shortly in the context of the Irish potato famine, and Bardi mentions population […]

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By: Book review – Should We Control World Population? | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:25:31 +0000

[…] of controversial. As mentioned in my previous review of An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition, concerns about human overpopulation go back to at least Malthus, a name that has become synonymous […]

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