Extrapolation

Peter Kenny

Chapter Chapter 17 in Better Business Decisions from Data, 2014, pp 179-181 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Thomas Malthus, an English cleric, economist, and statistician, is known for his theories on population growth. He wrote in 1798 in his Essay on the Principle of Population that, because population increases geometrically (1, 2, 4, 8, …) and food increases arithmetically (1, 2, 3, 4, …), the population would eventually outstrip food supply. He warned of premature death visiting the human race. The onset of disaster would be prevented only by epidemics, pestilence, plague, famine, and preventive measures. His numerous writings on the subject gave rise to the Malthusian doctrine.

Keywords: Premature Death; Population Increase; Human Race; Equal Chance; Perfect Correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0184-8_17

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