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An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison with the second.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison with the second.
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It will be said, perhaps, that the increased number of purchasers in every article would give a spur to productive industry and that the whole produce of the island would be increased. This might in some degree be the case. But the spur that these fancied riches would give to population would more than counterbalance it, and the increased produce would be to be divided among a more than proportionably increased number of people. All this time I am supposing that the same quantity of work would be done as before. But this would not really take place. The receipt of five shillings a day, instead of eighteen pence, would make every man fancy himself comparatively rich and able to indulge himself in many hours or days of leisure. This would giv. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I’m not sure what exactly I expected from this little book. Certainly, I expected to see Malthus’s oft cited argument concerning the rate of food production vs. that of population increase (but I wondered if an entire book, however brief, could be filled on that topic). I just as certainly did not e
There are too many people in the world, and it gets more and more crowded every day.
Malthus understood this in 1798 and his main concern was with food, of us running out of it as we created more and more mouths to feed with no real checks in place on an exploding population growth. This can only be
Друго поглавље ове књиге ми је упало као реадинг ассигнмент за неки курс који пратим на Курсери, али мој добри стари ОЦД ме је приморао да прочитам комплетан есеј. Наравно, проценат оног што сам разумио је мизеран и креће се у једноцифреној зони. Углавном, то друго поглавље описује како се количина
The basic argument of the book is dead. To borrow Monty Python, "'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This argument is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the dais
Yet another reading for my Economic History class
An intelligent man taught me to think of Malthus by drawing a line graph, with population on the x-axis and food supply on the y-axis. Draw a straight line from the top left corner to the bottom right and plot a point midway down the line. Once you pass that point going down, things start to get int
Humans tend to increase faster than they can create food, so at a certain point they will be unable to support themselves. There are two ways to control this: decrease birth rate (preventive checks) or increase death rate (positive checks); if the first one doesn't happen, the second inevitably will
I read this book because it has been recommended as one of the influences for the modern capitalist system. Adam smith is regarded as the founding father of our current economic system and the ideas of Malthus which are presented in this book serve as a solidifying justification to further support t