In His Essay on the Principles of Population, Thomas Malthus

question 262

Multiple Choice

In his Essay on the Principles of Population, Thomas Malthus argued that

• A) human living standards could permanently rise above subsistence levels, so that populations would grow exponentially.
• B) any increase in living standards would be temporary because people will have more children and increase the population, thus bringing living standards back down.
• C) as the population increases, the standard of living would grow as well because of rising productivity.
• D) as economic efficiency declined, standards of living would first fall and then eventually rise as the population starts increasing.

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