Malthusian theory
| Noun | 1. |  Malthusian theory - Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence |
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| 释义 | Malthusian theory
Malthusian theoryMalthusian theoryThe theory that populations tends to increase faster than the means of their subsistence so that starvation, poverty and misery are inevitable unless populations are controlled by disease, famine, celibacy, ‘vicious practices’ (contraception), infanticide or war. The theory was proposed in An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 (Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766–1834, English theorist).Malthusian theory
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