A set of principles first formulated by this economist were embedded into the World3 model in a book commissioned by the Club of Rome in 1972.
A set of principles first formulated by this economist were embedded into the World3 model in a book commissioned by the Club of Rome in 1972. He claimed that real income only rose with industrialization, with the rest of the world being stuck in his namesake trap. Anne and Paul Ehrlich were ideological followers of this economist. He argued that rent represented an economic surplus, sparking a debate with David Ricardo. He distinguished between positive checks, which increase the death rate, and preventative checks, which decrease the birth rate, in a book that states that food production expands linearly but population growth is exponential. For 10 points, name this economist who predicted an overpopulation catastrophe in An Essay on the Principle of Population.
A set of principles first formulated by this economist were embedded into the World3 model in a book commissioned by the Club of Rome in 1972.
Thomas Malthus 