Copyright (c) 2008 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/vernon_briggs Recent documents in Vernon M Briggs Jr en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:00:46 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/vernon_briggs/171 http://works.bepress.com/vernon_briggs/171 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:33:17 PDT "As Robert Heilbroner has so aptly observed, economics has produced "a handful of men" whose contributions to mankind have been "more decisive for history than many acts of statesman who basked in brighter glory, often more profoundly disturbing then the shuttling of armies back and forth across frontiers, and more powerful for good and bad than the edicts of kings and legislatures." One such person cited by Heilbroner is Thomas Robert Malthus." Vernon M. Briggs