Malthus held that people possess the capacity for foresight and make prudential decisions in the light of the consequences they foresee. |
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The principle that there is a perpetual tendency in the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is usually attributed to Malthus. |
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Not until Malthus and Ricardo were Smith's optimistic assumptions seriously challenged. |
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It is this way in spite of knowing that the Earth's population, as Malthus said, can't grow indefinitely. |
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Malthus claimed that the planet would be unable to support more than 800 million to one billion inhabitants. |
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Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong. |
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All of that moved into the background rather abruptly in late 2008 as we went from the world of Malthus to the world of Keynes. |
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Thomas R. Malthus wrote in 1798 that population tends to grow faster than the food supply. |
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But the premonitions of Malthus, of Darwin and of the inevitable Galton, have to be reconsidered. |
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Malthus marks the effective interchangeability of these two tendencies in an example illustrating the possible causes of a decline in demand for decorative trimmings. |
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Indeed, the tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus. |
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Malthus noted that hunger and poverty were common in the past of human history. |
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However, Adam Smith and the notable classical economists, such as Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo, did not use the phrase. |
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The ideas of Malthus were adopted by many in a position to influence policy. |
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Malthus wrote that in a period of resource abundance, a population could double in 25 years. |
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As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour. |
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In the second and subsequent editions Malthus put more emphasis on moral restraint as the best means of easing the poverty of the lower classes. |
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But just as pronatalism is unjustified, so are the dire — and discredited — prophecies of Thomas Malthus and his followers, who believed that soaring populations must lead to mass starvation. |
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So Malthus looks beatable even when he sits astride the apocalyptic horse of climate change. Moreover, there is a simple way more or less to abolish the effect of climate change on yield to date. |
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But those who read Malthus at the turn of the 19th century and concluded that industrialisation would result in political upheaval, misery, and war turned out to be right. |
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But if overfishing continues it could hurt poor countries, because their people rely more heavily on fish for protein than do rich-world dwellers. Fish, it would seem, are proving Malthus right. |
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On the whole, Malthus has been proven wrong, at least until now. |
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It is significant that at the recent centenary meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science views were expressed very much in line with those of Malthus. |
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Still, since the time of economist Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, assertions that population growth constitutes the gravest threat to the planet and to our collective ability to survive have gained currency. |
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English economist Thomas Malthus wrote a famous treatise on the subject in 1798, arguing that growing populations would outstrip food supplies, resulting in poverty, famine, and death. |
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Since the time of economist Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, the debate about the relationship between population growth and economic development has been vigorous and contentious. |
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Authors such as Thomas Malthus developed this analysis and advocated for a limitation on the number of poor children as a better controlling device. |
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Malthus was, first and foremost, an anti-utopian, that is, a realist who warned against hoping for the indefinitely continued progress of mankind without adequate public intervention. |
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In 1805 Malthus became Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College in Hertfordshire. |
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Contrary to this concept, Malthus proposed rent to be a kind of economic surplus. |
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Malthus laid importance on economic development and the persistence of disequilibrium. |
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If Malthus and Ricardo differed, it was a difference of men who accepted the same first principles. |
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In terms of public policy, Malthus was a supporter of the protectionist Corn Laws from the end of the Napoleonic Wars. |
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He implied that Malthus wanted to dictate terms and theories to other economists. |
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In spite of this, in the wake of McCulloch's scathing review, the reputation of Malthus as economist dropped away, for the rest of his life. |
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On 13 March 1804, Malthus married Harriet, daughter of John Eckersall of Claverton House, near Bath. |
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Martineau relied on Malthus to form her view of the tendency of human population to exceed its means of subsistence. |
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But FAIR's Stein, an enthusiastic proponent of 18th century doomsayer Thomas Malthus, doesn't do himself any favors by being fairly loose-lipped. |
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Malthus came to prominence for his 1798 essay on population growth. |
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The purpose of Malthus's Definitions was terminological clarity, and Malthus discussed appropriate terms, their definitions, and their use by himself and his contemporaries. |
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In 1829, Cobbett published Advice to Young Men in which he heavily criticised An Essay on the Principle of Population published by the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. |
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The theodicy of Paley and Thomas Malthus vindicated evils such as starvation as a result of a benevolent creator's laws, which had an overall good effect. |
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Ricardo corresponded with Malthus from 1817 and his Principles. |
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He was drawn into considering political economy in a less restricted sense, which might be adapted to legislation and its multiple objectives, by the thought of Malthus. |
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Babbage was its public face, backed by Richard Jones and Robert Malthus. |
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After Ricardo's death in 1823, Malthus became isolated among the younger British political economists, who tended to think he had lost the debate. |
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In this work, his first published pamphlet, Malthus argues against the notion prevailing in his locale that the greed of intermediaries caused the high price of provisions. |
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Malthus faced opposition from economists both during his life and since. |
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