 | Ivan Wright - 1923 - 364 strani
...land is the same thing as poor land." "The Economics of Enterprise," p. 180. 2 THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, "Population when unchecked, increases in a geometrical...Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio." which, as later modified, and now paraphrased for our purposes is: That the population has a tendency... | |
 | Eleanor Florence Rathbone - 1924 - 348 strani
...tending to fall. Malthus in his famous Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 laid down that " population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical...subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio ".1 Hence population was always pressing upon subsistence and was " kept down " by the positive checks... | |
 | Herbert Albert Silverman - 1925 - 452 strani
...turn lead to a reduction in the standard of life. In the first edition of his work he stated, that " population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical...subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio."* The population, he submitted, would tend to double itself every twenty-five years. But, he went on... | |
 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - 1926 - 886 strani
...the increase of the food compared with the increase of population is slow, laborious, and difficult. "Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical...; subsistence increases only in an arithmetical." (See ARITHHETRICAL RATIO ; GEOMETRICAL RATIO.) Malthus in short begins abstractly : suppose all impediments... | |
 | 1928 - 656 strani
...power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked increases in a geometrical...an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with the numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison to the second. This natural inequality... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1959 - 164 strani
...power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical...arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - 1964 - 480 strani
...increase," he said, " is evidently arithmetical," and he thought this justified the proposition that " Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical...Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio " (pp. 14, 22). Even the most determined apostles of the faith that mistake was impossible to the more... | |
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Secondly, that the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state. . . . Assuming then, my postulata as granted, I say, that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence... 
