Neo-Malthusianism

Originally it was called Neo-Malthusianism, a name that would have made Malthus wince, for he disapproved of the practice.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Originally it was called Neo-Malthusianism, a name that would have made Malthus wince, for he disapproved of the practice.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Right, academia has brought us many fine things … Bolshevism, Fascism, Neo-Malthusianism.

Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli 2010

Environmental awareness might influence birth-rates (as in the European Neo-Malthusianism of 1900 and in China since 1980).

Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009

Oct. 2 & 9, 1830; and Himes, "Robert Dale Owen, The Pioneer of American Neo-Malthusianism." back

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Malthusians, being "the only country where Neo-Malthusianism has been given the opportunity of diminishing the excessive birth-rate on eugenic lines, i.e. in the reduction of the fertility of the poorest classes," [38] and where a "considerable rise in the wages and general prosperity appears to have taken place side by side with an unprecedented increase of population."

Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921

"Secularism, Socialism, and Neo-Malthusianism," combined with the sale of contraceptives.

Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921

Neo-Malthusianism assumes that population if unchecked will exceed subsistence, but by subsistence it means a liberal, or even a progressively rising, standard of comfort.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Now it is quite unlikely that a Socialistic organization of production, with its lessened incentives to inventive and productive energy, would be able to provide means of living adequate to the full capacity of human fecundity; and a universally and continuously rising standard of comfort would be subject to all the physical, moral, and intellectual hindrances and consequences which beset the suicidal system of Neo-Malthusianism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Neo-Malthusianism means not a higher but a lower plane of life; not more genuine culture or loftier morals, but more abundant physical enjoyments and a more refined materialism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913