the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
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Malthusian theory
Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
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the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods)
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes who advocated government monetary and fiscal programs intended to stimulate business acti…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of mo…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) the theory that a person or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic environment rather than by making a prof…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) the theory that a person or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic environment rather than by making a prof…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics.(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, General economics.(economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service
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(biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.(statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population stat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.(physics) a theory of atomic structure that combined Rutherford's model with the quantum theory; electrons orbiting a nucleus can only…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from cer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the paren…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.(chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malthus, theory, population, increase, outpace.a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenome…
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