HIS241H1 Lecture : September 29
Document Summary
The part of economics concerned with single factors and the effects of individual decision. Objected to the idea of history as limitless societal improvement. The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for a man. the potential to have more babies is much greater than the ability of the planet to provide resources. Must it not then be acknowledged by an attentive examiner of histories of mankind, that in every age and in every state in which man has existed, or does now exist . That the increase of populations in necessarily limited by the means of subsistence. That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase when there is more food you will get more people. That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence by misery and vice .
