The cheerful stuay of economics began by Adam Smith became the dismal science when practised by Thomas Malthus and other students of population explos(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: The cheerful stuay of economics began by Adam Smith became the dismal science when practised by Thomas Malthus and other students of population explosion; writes John Kenneth Galbraith; right. This article is the second of six extracted from the Canadian-born economist's scripts for the BBC documentary; The Age of Uncertainty.