Book
1798
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus
Argues population outruns food supply — wrong about the outcome, right that demography and resources are one problem, and never out of the argument since.
Read itWhere it is now wrong
The central prediction failed for the industrialising world. Agricultural productivity outran population growth, and birth rates fell as incomes rose — the demographic transition, which Malthus had no reason to anticipate.
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