21L.448J | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

Darwin and Design

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Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

Topics: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

  1. Worldometer
  2. Human mind
  3. Fixed laws of nature
  4. Population growth
  5. Instinct versus reason
  6. Struggle for existence
  7. Malthus’s theory of growth
  8. Variable rate compounding

Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

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