"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a redemption ... ROMER: In 1798, the Reverend Thomas Malthus had published "An Essay On The Principle Of Population." SLATER: And Dickens loathed Malthus.

He's taking aim at the father of the zero-growth philosophy, Thomas Malthus. Malthus' ideas were still current in British intellectual life at the time A Christmas Carol was written. Malthus ...

He’s taking aim at the father of the zero-growth philosophy, Thomas Malthus. Malthus’ ideas were still current in British intellectual life at the time A Christmas Carol was written.

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived ... human activity puts on natural resources, we’re recalling Malthus. Later in A Christmas Carol, Scrooge asks ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus ... we’re recalling Malthus. Later in “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge asks whether Tiny Tim will die. The Ghost of Christmas ...

Among its champions were Adam Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus ... to paper and created what became a Christmas classic. Today on the show: How A Christmas Carol took on some of the most important ...

“A Christmas Carol” is no exception. Ebenezer Scrooge, the infamously miserly protagonist, embodies an especially nasty version of the scarcity economics of Thomas Malthus. Upon hearing that ...

Thomas Robert Malthus is best known to posterity as the author of the ... Malthus and the debates he inspired would have been well known to Dickens when he wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. Indeed, ...