Textbook p.507-516

Optimum population size

Depends on the resources available + cultural standards about the appropriate level of subsistence for individuals.

Logistic equation

Calculating the growth rate of a population by taking into account its current size.

Wealth

________ is concentrated among fewer and fewer people.

Condorcet

Humans are inherently good, social institutions= problematic.

Godwin

Institutions = obstacles to human development.

Miseries

Positive checks (increase death rate)

Vices

Preventive checks (lower birth rate)

Carrying capacity

The sustainability of the earth's ecosystem given the food, habitat, water and other ecosystem necessities required to support the human population

Proletariat

Sell their labour power

Malthus

Dismissed utopian views

Moralist

Malthus was a

Frederick Engels

Collaborator of Karl Marx