POSITIVE CHECK: THE MALTHUSIAN THEOREM AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Thomas Malthus (1798) had argued that human ingenuity and skill were incapable of controlling population growth. With less efficacious positive controls (moral suasion), he controversially relied on wars, diseases, famine, and deaths—probable circumstantial conditions—to check population growth. The...
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Journal of Smart Economic Growth
2021-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Smart Economic Growth |
| Online Access: | https://jseg.ro/index.php/jseg/article/view/140 |