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Explain And Evaluate Critically Malthus's Population Theory.
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In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus, a British clergyman and professor, wrote
an essay showing the way to modern demography. In 1824 he wrote a shorter final
version, the article on population for that year's Encyclopedia Britannica.
Malthus has been criticized for his lack of scientific foresight—he d ....
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....ach 25 years it would be 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, and so on. In other words, food could only increase arithmetically,
whereas the population if otherwise left unfettered would tend to increase
geometrically.
Checks on Population. Malthus concluded that, since food is necessary
to human life, world population will necessarily grow slower than its natural
trend. Malthus postulated two types of checks on human population growth---
positive and negative. Positive checks are increases in the death rate as .... |
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