The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linn?r traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg B?rgstr?m, labelled 'neo-Malthusians' for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The...