 Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 361edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Socialism - 1969 - 496 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, &c, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 2Л6 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13 ; and in two thousand years the difference would be almost... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, Donald Winch - History - 1992 - 430 pages
...would increase as the numbers I, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...years the difference would be almost incalculable. 15 [The concluding paragraphs of this chapter are based on pp. 22-6 of the 1798 Essay.] In this supposition... | |
 | Adam Kuper - Social Science - 1994 - 290 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4. 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256. and subsistence as 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...years the difference would be almost incalculable." Malthus lived during a period of very rapid population growth. Between 1750 and 1850 the population... | |
 | Pamela M. Pilbeam - History - 1995 - 284 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2/3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable. Note that these well-known 'mathematical jingles' were used purely as heuristic devices,... | |
 | Mary Jacobus - Art - 1995 - 324 pages
...etc. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to io: in three centuries as 4096 to 13 , and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable. — Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population ( 1798)1 MADAME DE SAINT- ANGE — Do you know,... | |
 | David Pepper - Business & Economics - 1996 - 388 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable. Malthus was sceptical that agricultural production could be indefinitely increased, even... | |
 | Julian L. Simon - Business & Economics - 258 pages
...&c. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10: in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent. No limits whatever are placed... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 pages
...&c. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10, in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent. . , , Chapter VII . . .... | |
 | Social Science - 1979 - 334 pages
...increase as the numbers I, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and the subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. Lack of food, then,... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - Business & Economics - 1999 - 526 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.'—vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn,... | |
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