Malthus revisited.(Thomas Robert Malthus)

From: World and I | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Attarian, John | Copyright information

John Attarian is a freelance writer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He specializes in economic topics, among others, and is a frequent contributor to The World & I.

In discussions of population, one almost invariably encounters the name Malthus. Thomas Robert Malthus, it is said, was a gloomy English economist who argued two centuries ago that population increases exponentially (doubling in every time period: 1, 2, 4, 8, ... ), whereas food supply increases arithmetically...

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