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  2. Malthusianism - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named. Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

  3. Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (/ ˈ m æ l θ ə s /; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) [1] was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.

  4. An Essay on the Principle of Population - Wikipedia

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    The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, [1] but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.The book warned of future difficulties, on an interpretation of the population increasing in geometric progression (so as to double every 25 years) [2] while food production increased in an arithmetic progression, which would leave a ...

  5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film) - Wikipedia

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    Taking Jake as a hostage, Barron forces Miss Peregrine to trap herself in bird form and takes her to Blackpool, leaving Jake, the other children, and Miss Avocet as prey for Malthus and the other Hollows. Malthus kills Miss Avocet, but Jake and the children escape just as the Luftwaffe raid destroys the house, killing Malthus.

  6. Malthusian growth model - Wikipedia

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    Malthus wrote that all life forms, including humans, have a propensity to exponential population growth when resources are abundant but that actual growth is limited by available resources: "Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms, nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand. ... The germs of existence ...

  7. Classical economics - Wikipedia

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    Classical economics, also known as the classical school of economics, [1] or classical political economy, is a school of thought in political economy that flourished, primarily in Britain, in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th century.

  8. Struggle for existence - Wikipedia

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    Malthus also notes that the checks on the human population are more complicated than those on animals and plants. [25] Malthus explains, for example, that a human check on population growth is the conscious decision not to reproduce because of financial burden. [25] Malthus then explains that the main check on population growth is food.

  9. Principles of Political Economy (Malthus book) - Wikipedia

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    Malthus' idea suggests that the amount of goods supplied may be a result of the demand. [4] Furthermore, Malthus argues that the economy tends to move towards recessions because productivity often grows more quickly than demand. [4] Malthus suggests increasing government spending and private investment on luxuries to cure recessions. [7]