Shah critiques Malthus essay

Shah critiques Malthus essay my taking what Malthus laid out in his essay and bringing it more up to date and bring in other peoples work too. Shah elaborates more on Malthus idea of increase resources of the household translate into more children. Shah says that this only makes sense if children are viewed as consumer goods. With the idea of populations tend to increase at an exponential manner; Shah connects David Ricardo to the idea and what Ricardo believes. With the idea of how technology would not really help the population Shah quotes Boulding and his idea of Utterly Dismal Theorem and how Boulding idea furthers Malthus thought about technology. Shah brings in an alternative idea to Malthus idea that the rich would keep their territory while the poor would edge each other out. Shah shows that the poor could capture the rich territory and take it over. Shah believes Malthus was wrong the human numbers outstripping its food resources. Malthus did not realize the mass amount of land that has been discovered since his writing and technology impact on food.