🔴 Books That Shook the Business World: An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus

“The core thesis was that any improvements in food production would quickly be overwhelmed by population growth. Advances made today would just increase the population tomorrow, meaning more mouths to feed. Since the amount of agricultural land was finite, population growth would inevitably drag most people back to bare subsistence level. Humanity was thus caught in an eternal trap.”

https://theconversation.com/books-that-shook-the-business-world-an-essay-on-the-principle-of-population-by-thomas-robert-malthus-234224

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