Malthus and his Legacy: 200 Years of the Population Debate
Information and papers available online - National Academies Forum
Joint Conference between the National Library of Australia and the National Academies Forum, Thursday 17 September and Friday 18 September 1998, Conference Room, National Library of Australia.
The conference proceedings will be broadcast on a radio program called Words at Work on Artsound FM 103.1 on Saturday 25 September, 11.00am -12.00pm. The first session will be the Keynote address.
Contact for Information, Registration and costs:
Sue Rider, National Academies Forum Telephone: 02 6247 8087 Email: naf@anu.edu.au
Thomas Robert Malthus linked the concepts of unrestrained population growth to inevitable poverty. He argued that '..the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.' And consequences of the necessary 'passion between the sexes' could only be checked by 'natural restraint' or 'by some species of misery or vice'. Was he a 'Miserable Parson' or a thoughtful prophet?
The conference "Malthus and his legacy: 200 years of the population debate", offers an outstanding opportunity to listen to speakers discussing Malthus' impact on the population debate from the late 18th to the 21st century. Speakers at the forefront of scholarship ranging across demography, history, economics and medical science will discuss the impact of Malthus's theory in the context of his times, and look forward to consider Malthus's influence upon contemporary debates concerning one of the world's most pressing problems - population expansion. The focus: 1798 - 1998 and the next millennium.
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