That is, everywhere and always I predict Malthusian stagnation because deviations are not evolutionarily stable.
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After decades of Malthusian doom-mongering, how have we found ourselves in a position of such abundance?
The old pile of assets has a Malthusian tendency to dissipate in divorces, death taxes and feuds.
At some point, if the policy riddle of unpopular allocation is not solved, this becomes a Malthusian knot.
In 1972 another neo-Malthusian book appeared, The Limits to Growth, which was published for the Club of Rome.
The second Malthusian error is to view people chiefly as consumers, not producers.
As it has from time immemorial, high quality protein harvested from the sea plays a major role in avoiding Malthusian collapse.
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The Malthusian crash was staved off in the 19th century by bringing more land under the plough in North America, Argentina and Australia especially.
Murrin's other bets imply that after a hiatus during the recession, a Malthusian shortage of grains, irrigation water, gold and oil will reassert itself.
The New World removed Malthusian constraints, which, until then, had meant that higher population growth could be achieved only at the expense of lower living standards.
Few thought to reject the Hubbard paradigm, even though it relied heavily on neo-Malthusian notions of a world of static technology and a known, fixed supply.
This time it was the tractor that averted Malthusian disaster.
The Malthusian limit would surely be reached one day, though.
The book ranges widely: from a quasi-Malthusian discussion of the impact of limited resources to the more familiar territory of how wage competition from emerging economies influences income inequality.
In the 1980s the link was downplayed in reaction to Malthusian alarms of the 1970s, when it was fashionable to argue that population growth had to be reined in because oil and natural resources were running short.
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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.
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Yet Malthusian doom is highly improbable.
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