[This is part of my series on Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principle of Population,” first published in…

[This is part of my series on Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principle of Population,” first published in 1798. You can find an overview of all my posts here that I will keep updated: “Synopsis: What’s Wrong with the Malthusian Argument?”]

I have made a similar point already on Twitter, but it tends to get lost. So I wanted to write it up in a short post, also because the argument is too involved for a few tweets:

[This is part of my series on Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principle of Population,”…