Malthus revisited

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Thomas Robert Malthus was a gloomy English economist who argued two centuries ago that population increases exponentially, whereas food supply increases arithmetically. According to this view, population will eventually outrun sustenance, so famine will inevitably wipe out the excess population, but he failed to anticipate modern agriculture.

United States, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Economists, Evaluation, Criticism and interpretation, Malthus, Thomas Robert, Population growth

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A higher meaning: science begins to ask big questions

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The orthodox line of thinking presupposes conflict between science and meaning, but new scientific findings appear to overturn this orthodoxy. Recent results in the fields of evolutionary biology and cosmology may prove that life and the universe are not just haphazard events.

Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Science, Philosophy of science, Meaning (Philosophy), Cosmology

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