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  2. Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (/ ... due to the industrial revolution. [34] Another limitation of this theory is the belief that overall income is a key factor of ...

  3. 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.

  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. Classical liberalism - Wikipedia

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    In addition to Smith's legacy, Say's law, Thomas Robert Malthus' theories of population and David Ricardo's iron law of wages became central doctrines of classical economics. The pessimistic nature of these theories provided a basis for criticism of capitalism by its opponents and helped perpetuate the tradition of calling economics the ...

  6. Classical economics - Wikipedia

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    Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. These economists produced a theory of market economies as largely self-regulating systems, governed by natural laws of production and exchange (famously captured by Adam Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand).

  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. Iron law of wages - Wikipedia

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    According to Malthus, humanity is largely destined to live in poverty because an increase in productive capacity results in an increase in population. Marx criticized Lassalle for misunderstanding David Ricardo. Marx also noted that the foundation of what he called "modern political economy" needs, for the theory of value, only for wages to be ...

  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]