Malthusian theories. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The world's population has exploded in Malthusian numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Immigration Policy] Reference
H = Le/loge2 ~ 1. 44Le ( 'bits'/generation) where Le is the substitutional load measured in 'Malthusian parameters'. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference
He was, that is, a Malthusian in the sense of believing that the great problem was essentially the problem of raising the self-respect and spirit of independence of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
I always thought that the "Malthusian" model was one in which there was a strong response of population to the availability of food. From Wordnik.com. [Cowen, Clark, and Malthus, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Yeah, this sounds "Malthusian" to the bleeding-heart types who would like to "save everybody", but let's face it -- "reality checks" rarely promise anyone a "rose garden" .... by. From Wordnik.com. [Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?] Reference
Recall a Malthusian world. From Wordnik.com. [Marginal Revolution] Reference
Rwanda is fast becoming a perfect Malthusian storm. From Wordnik.com. [Allan Rosenfield and Josh Ruxin: To Ensure Health and Increase Growth, Bring Population Under Control] Reference
A Marxian-Malthusian view of poverty and development. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
Some prophets of doom fell prey to Malthusian fallacies. From Wordnik.com. [Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity] Reference
Malthusian ills to a period of almost indefinite duration. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832] Reference
But really, its the old Malthusian short-sightedness here. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Business Insider calls Lee is a anti-capitalist Malthusian. From Wordnik.com. [James Lee, Discovery Hostage Taker, Has List Of Demands That Is Hilarious And Crazy] Reference
History is littered with Malthusian predictions of shortages. From Wordnik.com. [Proposed Mining Megadeal] Reference
The old Malthusian doctrine has given way before applied science. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
Prophets of Malthusian doom have a long history - dating back to Malthus himself. From Wordnik.com. [Making every drop count] Reference
PUNCH is (and we reluctantly admit the fact) a Malthusian in principle, and somewhat of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
A second Malthusian plot was also hatched through a classified Kissinger April 1974 memo. From Wordnik.com. [F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II] Reference
Meanwhile, the people of England, heedless of Malthusian forebodings, multiplied exceedingly. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
And that capacity to understand and respond meant that the world was less Malthusian thereafter. From Wordnik.com. [New Limits to Growth] Reference
Each time Malthusian notions have surfaced, technological advances have swiftly pushed them aside. From Wordnik.com. [Investment Page-Turners for the Summer] Reference
The Malthusian chorus of political economists suggests the notion that a nation may be over-physical. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Prophets of Malthusian doom have a long history - dating back to Malthus himself - of getting it wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Sustenance and Security - Australia's Multi-Layered Approach] Reference
Everybody knows that the Malthusian -- Malthus was a man who said population is going to increase at this rate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2004] Reference
Yet amid the much ado about global warming, the people problem is asserting itself with a neo-Malthusian vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [A Planet Without People] Reference
Malthus did not claim to be the originator of this idea, although it has come to be known as the "Malthusian Theory". From Wordnik.com. [The Depopulation of Planet Earth] Reference
Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. From Wordnik.com. [Save The Planet Protest: James J. Lee's Demands (TEXT)] Reference
The classics had followed a Malthusian vision that expected population to be controlled by wages falling below subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state] Reference
This Malthusian nightmare should leave any rational individual thinking about choosing a soy veggie burger for dinner tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Global Warming Goes Mainstream] Reference
I have a special love for the Malthusian ethic, in much the same way I love many philosophies, and theories of social structure. From Wordnik.com. [his-holiness Diary Entry] Reference
While I'm as susceptible to Malthusian thoughts as the next paranoid guy, I find much of the anti-ethanol case to be unpersuasive. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethanol Backlash] Reference
In Brazil the feminist neo-Malthusian anarchist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote: “Love one another more and do not multiply so much”. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference
Some of the most racist, primitivist, imperialist, Malthusian fears are embodied in the current international climate change consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Obama the Visionless: Flogging the Four Horsemen of the Bureaucracy] Reference
The fear that too much kindness would entail a Malthusian lesson not learnt also conditioned both the nature and extent of intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Irish famine] Reference
It is a Malthusian nightmare in terms of the number of people being born every day and the limit on resources that the country lives under. From Wordnik.com. [From Beirut to Jerusalem] Reference
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