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The Anti-Malthusianism of the 20th Century
Malthus' argument is deeply embedded in the ways that we think about human populations and social organization. It's kind of embedded in you somewhere because it has become so much part of the water that we're swimming in, he says. Malthus wrote this essay more than two centuries ago, but his thinking or strands of his thinking are still permeating contemporary discourses.