The importance of subsistence as a motivation for conflict in world history was stressed by Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population ([1798]1998). The Malthusian theory illuminated the causal relationship between population growth, scarcity of resources, and conflict outbreak.
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The importance of subsistence as a motivation for conflict in world history was stressed by Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population ([1798]1998). The Malthusian theory illuminated the causal relationship between population growth, scarcity of resources, and conflict outbreak.