Malthusian theory

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Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence

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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population. Henry Charles Carey

John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments, by John Stuart Mill Control of population growth Mill supported the Malthusian theory of population. Source: Internet

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