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Has Malthusian Theory been discredited in contemporary times? Justify your answer.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Thomas Robert Malthus argued in 1798 that population grows geometrically while subsistence grows arithmetically, so that growth is restrained either by preventive checks on the birth rate or by positive checks — famine, disease and war — on the death rate.

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