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...Wherever the potato has been adopted populations have boomed. In 1798 pioneering demographer Thomas Malthus complained that more food brings more mouths, and warned that the potato would depress wages and living standards by pushing Europe's population far beyond the opportunities of employment. What Malthus didn't know was that Europe was already in the throes of a development that would quickly swallow any labor surplus: the Industrial Revolution...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), also protested outside the IOP using various percussive instruments, while displaying signs calling for the abolition of the WTO. One Boston-area demonstrator held up a sign that read “WTO loves Malthus,” referring to an 18th and 19th century economist, who said that resources could not keep up with population growth. At five different moments during Lamy’s speech, protesters interrupted the director-general to scattered applause. Each time, a police officer took the demonstrator away...
...philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even professorial families may expand to keep pace with the fashion; professors may soon be able to get special grants to educate their children—provided they have children. We agreed with Malthus in approving this kind of growth. Rising figures, however, were not restricted to the University population nor to her term bills. The local barbers upped their prices to $1.50. Unanimously, we labeled this a bad thing, and recommended Central Square. While thus taking a long, but critical view of the local...
Gilmour interjects amusing tales of the inept legacy students who were in over their heads in the rigorous environment of Haileybury. Another interesting anecdote concerns Haileybury’s most famous professor, the economist Thomas Malthus, who memorably encountered several of his students on the way to chapel with “tankards of beer...
...Harvard undergraduates gravitate in such large numbers toward economics? Is it a communal fascination with the theoretical work of Malthus and Ricardo, Smith, and Keynes? Could it be a deep interest in garnering the empirical skill set proffered by this empress of the social sciences before departing to a career of more abstractly conceived pursuits? Though I’ve yet to conduct a study on the question, I’d hazard that neither of these explanations is the correct one. I’m rather inclined to side with The Crimson Staff of 1929; most of the roughly...