Robert Malthus watched the economy and demographics with rapt attention. He watched and saw what no one before him ever see... He saw something... and got really excited. He got up to write an article... It was the turn of the century, about 1798.
The phenomenon he saw, now called after him, the Malthusian Principle, is that when harvest is good, when the economy is good, people think it will last forever, eat better, spend what they have, make more babies...
But the nature of things is cyclical, and economies get better and then get worse. So all those extra babies starved to death, literally, and the population, again, lived in near starvation levels.
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