In his work, the English economist Thomas R. Malthus notes that if population growth is not held back by any causes, the population will double every quarter century and therefore increase in a geometric progression. It is in this book that the scholar first uses the term “struggle for existence,” which today is one of the main categories of the theory of evolutionary economics. Learn from the audiobook what the state of society depends on—and why societal development turns out to be subject to biological laws!