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GCSE English Literature · key term
Ideas associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, who argued that unchecked population growth could outstrip food supplies and that poor relief could worsen this pressure by encouraging population growth.
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Paper 1
The theory associated with Thomas Robert Malthus that population tends to grow faster than food supplies unless its growth is checked.
The view associated with Thomas Robert Malthus that population could grow faster than food supplies, causing hardship unless its growth was restrained. His concern that guaranteed support could encourage population growth helped underpin opposition to poor relief.
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Paper 2
The argument associated with Thomas Robert Malthus that unchecked population growth tends to outstrip food supplies, producing hardship.
Ideas associated with Thomas Malthus, who argued that unchecked population growth could outstrip food supplies and cause poverty.
Ideas associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, including the argument that unchecked population growth could outstrip food supplies and that poor relief could worsen population pressure.
The belief, associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, that unchecked population growth can outstrip food supplies and produce poverty.
Component 2
The belief, associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, that unchecked population growth could outstrip food supplies. Such ideas influenced nineteenth-century debates about poverty and poor relief.
