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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. 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 ...

  4. Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

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    Of the relationship between population and economics, Malthus wrote that when the population of laborers grows faster than the production of food, real wages fall because the growing population causes the cost of living (i.e., the cost of food) to go up. Difficulties of raising a family eventually reduce the rate of population growth, until the ...

  5. Malthusian growth model - Wikipedia

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    P 0 = P(0) is the initial population size, r = the population growth rate, which Ronald Fisher called the Malthusian parameter of population growth in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, [2] and Alfred J. Lotka called the intrinsic rate of increase, [3] [4] t = time. The model can also be written in the form of a differential equation:

  6. Theory of population - Wikipedia

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    Theory of population may refer to: Malthusianism, a theory of population by Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) An Essay on the Principle of Population, the book in which Malthus propounded his theory; Neo-Malthusian theory of Paul R. Ehrlich (born 1932) and others; Theory of demographic transition by Warren Thompson (1887–1973)

  7. Ayn Rand, Thomas Malthus, and the High Cost of Terrible Ideas

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    Pity the philosopher. Underpaid and underappreciated, professional thinkers are doomed to a terrible dilemma: in the best case, their ideas are likely to be ignored. In the worst case, they will ...

  8. Struggle for existence - Wikipedia

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    Due to the vast landscape and lack of population in proportion to land, many people of Russia did not see the struggle for existence and could not relate to Malthus's ideas on population. [48] Thus, it was concluded that cooperation, which is more successful in battling the abiotic environment, rather than competition is a driving factor in ...

  9. Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni clash over intimate scenes ... - AOL

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    “It Ends with Us" stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s respective lawsuits focus on intimate scenes within the movie. Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment while filming.