The industrial revolution gave us the Reverend Thomas Malthus, that most fearful of latter-day apocalyptics.

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The ugly spirit of Reverend Thomas Malthus is lurking again.

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Simon's fact-filled books and essays convincingly ridiculed these heirs of Reverend Thomas Malthus, an 18th-century economist who wrote a widely read tract predicting pestilence and famine as population growth outstripped the capacity to grow food.

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