Thomas Malthus Flashcards

(4 cards)

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What are posotive checks

A

Natural inevitable corrections to demand Liek famine war and disease leading to population decrease

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What are moral restraints

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Changes in behaviour- individual or in groups or nationalities- such as falling fertility rate and consumption

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3
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What is a Malthusian crisis

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Where demand exceeds food production

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4
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How do food and population grow according to him

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Food- arithmetically
Population- exponentially

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