MALTHUSIAN LAW OF POPULATION
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Theory that populations grow at a geometric rate while food supplies grow at an arithmetic rate. Seen as flawed as limited factors were observed in developing this Law. Ignores essential factors: technology, disease, poverty, international conflict and natural disasters. Proposed in 1798 by English economist Thomas Malthus.
By Henry Campbell Black
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