History of Economic Ideas
A geometric progression is a sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous term by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio. This concept is crucial in understanding how populations grow over time, particularly in relation to Thomas Malthus's population theory, which suggests that populations can increase exponentially when resources are plentiful.
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