Chapter 18 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
It Led to a Hockey Stick of Growth
June 9th, 2010
It had never happened before. In 1798 Robert Malthus (1766-1834), an Anglican clergyman irritated by the extravagant and anti-clerical claims of the French revolutionaries and their British friends that a new day had dawned, explained for the first time why the enrichment of the poor had not yet happened. He said in his great book (more…)
