It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

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  No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

• Thomas Malthus:

  Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ra

• Thomas Malthus:

  The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

• Thomas Malthus:

  The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to le

• Thomas Malthus:

  The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the pow

• Thomas Malthus:

  The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

• Thomas Malthus:

  The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence

• Thomas Malthus:

  The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the p

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inqui

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.