The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population-Resource Crises

by Björn-Ola Linnér

The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linn?r traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg B?rgstr?m, labelled 'neo-Malthusians' for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912186748
• ISBN13: 9781912186747
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: White Horse Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"