Neo-malthusian theory can be used to explain which of the following situations?

1 Neo-Malthusian Theory

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   • 1 Neo-Malthusian Theory
   • What is an example of Neo Malthusian?
   • What is the main argument of the Neo Malthusians?
   • What is Neo Malthusian quizlet?
   • Which of the following most accurately describes a neo Malthusian attitude?

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2. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population or a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evil which it Occasions, 1801 edition (Richard D. Irwing, Homewood, Illinois, 1963).

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3. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine, N.Y., 1968);

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6. Garrett Hardin, ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, in Science, Vol. 162, Dec. 1968, pp. 1243–8;

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17. The model is that of J.W. Forrester posed in Industrial Dynamics (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1961).

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18. This study is based on World demographic estimates for the last 3 centuries, for example, drawn from A.M. Curr-Saunders, World Population: Past Growth and Present Trends (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1936);

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19. Donald Bogue, Principles of Demography (John Wiley and Sons, N.Y., 1969);

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21. See, in particular, C.B. Macpherson, The Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962).

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Vol. 145, No. 4 (Dec., 2001)

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