Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Do You Think Malthus Got Anything Wrong?
Malthus wrote two kind of papers on this or whatever I mean there's been writing quite a long time ago it's papers from another the right term. In his first one he more emphasized we'd call the positive checks the fact that if population is high people will die because of increased famine and so on. As later paper he was emphasizing more the fact that different societies can actually choose how many children to have. He thinks some supporters of Malthus particularly more enthusiastic later day people have tended to emphasize the more negative to the more positive check story everyone will breed until everyone dies.
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