WORLD ECONOMIC THOUGHT: MALTHUSIAN SCHOOL AND OUR DAY
https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2015-3-135-141
Abstract
The UN report published about 6 years ago offered a forecast of global population dynamic for a few next decades, it states that by 2050 the population of the planet will reach 9,1 bn at the same time the situation on foods market will deteriorate due to a sharp increase in the majority of agricultural produce prices. Prominent economists, politicians and journalists preoccupied with the problem of natural resource shortage start paying attention to the ideas of the British economist Thomas Malthus who lived on the border of the 18th - 19th centuries. The author analyzes the causes of the drastic condition of the Third World countries and studies ideas of neo-Malthusians about the fact that population of these countries are doomed to poverty due to high growth in population.
About the Author
Valentin A. Shchegolevsky
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD, Assistant Professor of the Department for History of Economic Thought of the PRUE
36 Stremyanny Lane, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
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Shchegolevsky V.A. WORLD ECONOMIC THOUGHT: MALTHUSIAN SCHOOL AND OUR DAY. Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. 2015;(3):135-141. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2015-3-135-141
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