Daily Reckoning: I am almost afraid to say so, but Thomas Robert Malthus, the English economist, is coming back into fashion. As I am the nearest thing there is to being Malthus’s publisher, and have a great admiration for his work, I ought to be pleased. However, neo-Malthusianism has a tragic message for the modern world. Thomas Malthus was born in 1766. In 1798, he published "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects the Future Improvement of Society". Subsequent revised …