This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on … the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also … birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of …

ideological counterattack. The Essay on Population was Malthus's contribution to this battle of ideas. It was then and is still … problems we face. The fact that there is not a single historical example that supports Malthus's doctrine has had no effect on …