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Malthusian Trap
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Malthusian Trap The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus was born in Surrey in 1766 and...mixture of human avarice and human reason could lead people to avoid the Malthusian trap. Malthus ’ s work was hugely influential at the practical...
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Zero Population Growth
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...1806 – 1873), incorporated Malthusian precepts and argued that population...Census Bureau in 1890, engendered a Malthusian revival (that is, calls for immediate...States in the 1920s. During the 1930s, Malthusian concerns abated. Birthrates in the...
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Demography
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...low birth and death rates. Convenient labels for these three stages are Malthusian‐frontier, neo‐Malthusian, and post‐Malthusian. (The term “Malthusian” comes from Thomas Robert...
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Wages
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...standards of living and thus examine Malthusian cycles. The second debate involves...1750s, wage series did follow a broad Malthusian pattern. In England, for instance...raises questions about the standard Malthusian model. In recent years, Malthus has...
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...new Poor Law inspired by his writings. Debates concerning Malthusian Theory Few thinkers in the history of social science have...participants of the debate still line up as for or against the Malthusian theory of population. From Malthus's writings, one receives...
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Food Crisis
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...population grows “ geometrically. ” This Malthusian view of food crises as basically caused by insufficient production...rates outstripping those of world population, thus defying Malthusian predictions. This is an obvious background to the shift in...
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Malthus, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...Essay was first published, the world's population has increased from less than 1 billion to more than 6 billion. While Malthusian theory is not a dominant theory of population growth in contemporary times, there is a group of neo-Malthusians who are...
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Conundrum
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...forced to choose between two equally luscious piles of hay that are equidistant starves to death. This is similar to the Malthusian dilemma, which states that helping the poor (humanitarian) may be increasing starvation (inhuman) when food supplies...
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Difference Equations
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...habitat with carrying capacity K , whose size in the next generation is proportional to a growth constant (sometimes called the Malthusian parameter) r , to the current population size x t and to the proportion of the habitat that, in some way, is so far unused...
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Frankenstein
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...industrial proletariat, the destruction of the body politic by the mob in the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, and a Malthusian dystopia born of a monstrous growth in population (see Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population , 1798...
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