Download or read book Malthus written by Robert J. Mayhew and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.