Thomas Robert Malthus Simulacrum
Population
18th–19th century
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. The consequences are inevitable — unless checked by misery, vice, or moral restraint.
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- Population
- diminishing returns
- the dismal science
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Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID economics_malthusian
Part of Economics · Classical Political Economy.