malthus in English

noun

family name; Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), English priest and economist famous for his theories on population control; earl of hell with a rough voice who commands 26 legions of demons (Demonology)

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1. Malthus then explains that the main check on population growth is food.

2. 12 Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence.

3. He's in his study, it's October of 1838, and he's reading Malthus, actually, on population.

4. 5 Malthus was burdened by a fatalism induced by fears of population growth and resource shortages.

5. 6 Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the Alimentary imperative

6. Malthus was determined to show that any society governed by Benevolist principles was doomed to poverty and misery

7. Stephen then notes an elaboration whereby our 'natural impulses are, Abstractedly considered, good, and only to be distinguished by their consequences' (Malthus 1803, 491), and illustrates: 'Hunger he says [paraphrasing Malthus 1803, 487], as Bentham had said, is the same in itself, whether it leads to stealing a loaf or to eating your own loaf, whereas the former alone has dire social consequences.

8. Thomas Malthus claimed that the world’s population (i.e., in the late 18th and early 19th centuries) was growing geometrically; though food production was only growing Arithmetically (i.e.,

9. Partly influenced by An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by Thomas Robert Malthus, Darwin noted that population growth would lead to a "struggle for existence" in which favourable variations prevailed as others perished.

10. Malthus postulated a geometric rate of population growth (like compound interest on a bank deposit) and an arithmetic rate of growth (simple interest on a bank account) of food production.