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How to use Malthus in a sentence

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Malthus held that people possess the capacity for foresight and make prudential decisions in the light of the consequences they foresee.
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.
Not until Malthus and Ricardo were Smith's optimistic assumptions seriously challenged.
It is this way in spite of knowing that the Earth's population, as Malthus said, can't grow indefinitely.
Malthus claimed that the planet would be unable to support more than 800 million to one billion inhabitants.
Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong.
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.
Thomas R. Malthus wrote in 1798 that population tends to grow faster than the food supply.
But the premonitions of Malthus, of Darwin and of the inevitable Galton, have to be reconsidered.
Malthus marks the effective interchangeability of these two tendencies in an example illustrating the possible causes of a decline in demand for decorative trimmings.
Indeed, the tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus.
Malthus noted that hunger and poverty were common in the past of human history.
However, Adam Smith and the notable classical economists, such as Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo, did not use the phrase.
The ideas of Malthus were adopted by many in a position to influence policy.
Malthus wrote that in a period of resource abundance, a population could double in 25 years.
As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.
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.
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.
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.
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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Upon this point men were treated to nothing but vague phrases when Malthus lived.
The attempts, for instance, to disprove the population doctrines of Malthus, have been mostly cases of ignoratio elenchi.
This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.
If Godwin had pricked men's consciences, Malthus brought the balm.
Malthus was not a thoroughgoing supporter of the 'do-nothing' doctrine.
Empson tells me that Malthus is well pleased, which is a good sign.
He defends Malthus against the 'execrations' of sentimentalism.
It is the doctrine of Malthus applied in most cases with ten-fold force.
I don't believe in Malthus or any talk about over-population.
It is a check for the operation of which Mr Malthus has allowed.
Malthus does not, so far as I can ascertain, face the question.
He quoted Spencer and Malthus, and enunciated the biological law of development.
Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine.
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