Thomas Malthus
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According to The New Palgrave: a Dictionary of Economics, Thomas Malthus's philosophy on population centers on the idea that human populations will increase until checked by natural limitations. This essay was based in part on observations made by Malthus during his travels in the North of Europe in 1799. According to Malthus, the principal limitation is the food supply. Malthus believed that population will always increase at a geometrical rate, while food production can only increase at an arithmetical rate. Critics suggested his theory of population would only be relevant in the distant future when the population had grown to the point that all parts of the world were fully populated, but Malthus maintained that his
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