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  2. Malthusianism - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named. Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

  3. Population cycle - Wikipedia

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    A population cycle in zoology is a phenomenon where populations rise and fall over a predictable period of time. There are some species where population numbers have reasonably predictable patterns of change although the full reasons for population cycles is one of the major unsolved ecological problems.

  4. Malthusian growth model - Wikipedia

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    P 0 = P(0) is the initial population size, r = the population growth rate, which Ronald Fisher called the Malthusian parameter of population growth in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, [2] and Alfred J. Lotka called the intrinsic rate of increase, [3] [4] t = time. The model can also be written in the form of a differential equation:

  5. Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

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    Of the relationship between population and economics, Malthus wrote that when the population of laborers grows faster than the production of food, real wages fall because the growing population causes the cost of living (i.e., the cost of food) to go up. Difficulties of raising a family eventually reduce the rate of population growth, until the ...

  6. Demographic transition - Wikipedia

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    Population pyramid of Uzbekistan in 2023 (Stage three). Population pyramid of Israel in 2023 (Stage three). In Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM), death rates are low and birth rates diminish, as a rule accordingly of enhanced economic conditions, an expansion in women's status and education, and access to contraception.

  7. Overlapping generations model - Wikipedia

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    The OLG model is the natural framework for the study of: (a) the life-cycle behavior (investment in human capital, work and saving for retirement), (b) the implications of the allocation of resources across the generations, such as Social Security, on the income per capita in the long-run, [1] (c) the determinants of economic growth in the ...

  8. China's population is projected to crash 55% by the turn of the next century. Italy's will sink 41%, and Brazil's will drop 23%. ... younger people will endure slower economic growth while ...

  9. Social cycle theory - Wikipedia

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    The American Economic Review 79: 1031–44. Weiss, Volkmar (2007). "The population cycle drives human history - from a eugenic phase into a dysgenic phase and eventual collapse." The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 32: 327-358. Weiss, Volkmar (2020). IQ Means Inequality: The Population Cycle that Drives Human History. KDP.