Before revision: Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named Malthusianism is the 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.
After revision: Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to toMalthusian 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.