scholarly journals Validity of Malthusian Theory of Population in 20th Century in Terms of Using Scientific Technology to the Economic Growth and Strength

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Mahfuzur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Population Theory ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Present World ◽  
Scientific Technology

In the late eighteenth century, in 1798, England's renowned economist Thomas Malthus, in his book ‘Essay on the Principal of Population’1, propounded a stirring theory about population, according to his name, it is called the Malthusian Population Theory. Malthus discussed the problem of population increase in the food supply and the scarcity of production rule. According to Malthus, population increases in geometric rates and food production increases at arithmetical rate. In the twentieth century, we will see how logical the population theory of Malthus is in today's world and how unreasonable. Although the population theory of Malthus is somewhat true for the underdeveloped countries. Due to the development and use of science and technology in the present world, the population theory of Malthas has been criticized by various modern economists.

Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660–1750: Agricultural Change

1965 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
National Income ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Improved Methods

Between the middle of the seventeenth century and the middle of the eighteenth century, English agriculture underwent a transformation in its techniques out of all proportion to the rather limited widening of its market. Innovations in cropping took place on a wide, though not a universal, front and independently of any great expansion of demand, which was to stimulate the extension of improved methods during the classic agricultural revolution of the late eighteenth century. Except in the sphere of stock breeding, the remainder of the century really had little to offer in the way of techniques which were new in principle. Yet the initial introduction of the most important advanced techniques had come during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when the slow and ultimately uncertain growth of population and the modest rise in per capita national income combined to produce only a gradual growth of demand.

A Breed Apart? Class and Community in a Somerset Coal-Mining Parish, c.1750–1850

Rural History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
RHIANNON THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Coal Miners ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth

This article fills an historiographical and methodological gap in our knowledge of the lived experience of the process of rural industrialisation. It uses a microhistorical study of a rapidly developing parish in the Somerset coalfield to question notions current in the historiography of rural class structures and community identity. It employs a variety of sources, including extracts from a particularly detailed early nineteenth-century journal, to demonstrate that the growing proportion of coal miners in the parish population from the late eighteenth century was well integrated, economically and culturally, into the local community. This argument runs counter to the stereotype that coal miners tended to form a ‘breed apart’ from the wider population. It is further argued that parish-based definitions of community, which have been emphasised in some of the most recent historiography, are less relevant in regions experiencing significant economic growth and structural change.

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