Malthus and the History of Population

O’Flaherty, Niall

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“…However, the GMM regressions provide negative views. This behaviour is supported by the Malthusian theory, which was developed by Thomas Malthus (1993). According to this theory, population growth has a negative impact on well-being, where the population growth tends to be faster than food supplies growth, so that it is always necessary to reduce population through various types of catastrophes to balance the number of people.…”

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Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach

San,

Chin

2023

South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance

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This study aimed at investigating the nexus between government debt and its determinants in the context of sustainable economic growth for 97 countries over the period from 2004 to 2018 by employing a panel data quantile regression and comparing it across a fixed-effects model and a generalized method of moments (GMM) model. The different touches of debt on economic growth were analysed. The quantile regression estimates revealed that government debt has various impacts on economic growth, relying on the degree of economic performance. Government debt negatively affects economic growth across all the quantiles. More interestingly, the quantile regression estimates indicated that in countries with a very low level of real GDP per capita growth, government debt has a stronger pernicious effect on economic growth compared to upper-middle and high-income countries. Hence, our results provided insightful information for policy makers in designing appropriate fiscal policies particularly for low- and lower- middle-income countries to mitigate the negative effect on economic growth, and it should be maintained at a low and reasonable level to promote sustainable economic growth. JEL Classification: E61, E62, E63, H63, O4, O40

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Section: Empirical Findingssupporting

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Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach

San,

Chin

2023

South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance

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“…The phenomenon of ‘poverty porn’ too is symptomatic of the ideational embeddedness of Malthusian ideas, revealing how producers, viewers, and to some extent, subjects of these ‘documentaries’ draw on and reproduce these narratives (Jensen, 2014). These ideas are deeply rooted in the British cultural imagination and so such language will return in the future, likely in a different form, but with the same purpose of ‘holding dependent poverty disgraceful’ (Malthus, 2008: III.VI.5). Though the specific words used might vary, the rhetoric of recessions among centre-right British newspapers is unlikely to change in the near future.…”

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“…When people refuse to work, unemployment rises, and so rising unemployment becomes a symptom of the moral decay that will make societies unsustainable, unless action is taken to reduce welfare uptake and dis-incentivise welfare dependency. To this end Malthus argued that welfare receipt should be stigmatised: ‘hard as it may appear in individual instances, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful’ (Malthus, 2008: III.VI.5).…”

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“…Malthusian ideas have had a profound influence on public and policy discourse over the last 200 years, shaping the Poor Law debates of the 1830s (Malthus, 2008; Polanyi, 2002), the welfare reforms of the 1980s and 1990s (Somers and Block, 2005) and austerity policies following the Great Recession (Harkins and Lugo-Ocando, 2016; Jensen and Tyler, 2015).…”

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The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

McArthur

Reeves

2019

Sociology

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Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

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“…According to Malthus law of population theory [19], rising population rates lead to greater supply of labor which necessarily drives down wages. Malthus simply believed that poverty is a natural byproduct of the growth of populations.…”

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Diagonal canonical form of interval matrices and applications on dynamical systems

Nirmala

Ganesan

2023

Phys. Scr.

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Finding the simplest form of a set of quantities is an important aspect of any branch of Mathematics. Of course, the simplest form or the canonical form as we often call it in mathematics, must possess all the important characteristics of the set of quantities. A real square matrix satisfying certain conditions can be brought to diagonal form which is its simplest form such that the diagonal form retains the eigenvalues, determinants, trace, rank, nullity,.. of the original matrix.Many computations with matrices become easier if one can diagonalize the matrices. In this article, we suggest an approach for diagonalizing interval matrices employing a novel methodology called the pairing technique, which will make it simpler and more eﬀective to classify and investigate interval matrices. This is extremely useful because computations involving a diagonalizable matrix can often be reduced to much simpler computations involving the corresponding diagonal matrix. We also discuss two real world applications on planar systems and linear discrete dynamical systems.

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Malthus and the History of Population

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Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach

Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: A Quantile Regression Approach

The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

Diagonal canonical form of interval matrices and applications on dynamical systems

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