You can learn more about these economic facts and ideas in our new book, Superabundance, available at Amazon. Jordan Peterson calls it a “profoundly optimistic book.”
Gale Pooley is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and a board member at Human Progress.
The thing is, when the black death happened, individual wealth rose. The link between population and starvation and disease didn't break until the industrial revolution. It was a sensible prediction in Malthus's time.