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Malthusian economics is an intuitive and once-popular idea, that is pretty well discredited by the the world getting a lot more pleasant to live in since Indust
by closeparen 5y ago
Malthusian economics is an intuitive and once-popular idea, that is pretty well discredited by the the world getting a lot more pleasant to live in since Industrial Revolution England. Do people really still believe it?
- native_samples 5y agoThey do in certain parts of academia. The message that academic models fail to predict reality isn't a popular one, hence the failure to haven anything from the 70s Malthusians "limits to growth" models.