The complete online text of Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country by Thomas Malthus.

Thomas Robert Malthus was born at his family's country home in Wotton, Surrey, on February 13, 1766. He was raised in a wealthy family, the sixth child of seven born to Daniel and Henrietta Malthus. His father, an eccentric liberal landowner who enjoyed...

The English economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was of the classical school and was the first to direct attention to the danger of overpopulation in the modern world. Thomas Malthus was born at the Rookery near Guilford, Surrey, a small estate ow...

Thomas Robert Malthus had an enormous impact on scholars of biology, human populations and economics. Malthus was born southwest of London in Surrey. He entered Jesus College at Cambridge in 1784 and graduated four years later, at which time he was ordai...

While the world rejects central planning and rushes toward free trade agreements the international agricultural market remains heavily managed and subsidized. There are signs however that farm protection and price supports may gradually be reduced. Farming subsidies have reached absurd proportions. Edward Carr...

Rain this week benefited the Miami Valley's soybeans, but came too late to undo drought damage to the corn crop. The region is in the grips of a "moderate" drought, according to the Palmer Drought Index, though crop observers said the drought conditions...