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Malthusianism
thumb|Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline. This event, called a Malthusian catastrophe (also known as a Malthusian trap, population trap, Malthusian check, Malthusian snatch, Malthusian crisis, point of crisis, or Malthusian crunch) has been predicted to occur if population growth outpaces agricultural
Modern Monetary Theory
heterodox macroeconomic theory
endogenous growth theory
theory that economic growth is mainly due to endogenous (not external) forces
chartalism
Chartalism is a theory in macroeconomics that views money as a pure creation of the state, introduced to control and organize economic activity rather than arising from barter or debt. It holds that fiat currency has value because governments impose taxes that must be paid in the currency they issue, creating demand for it.
classical dichotomy
the idea, attributed to classical/pre-Keynesian economics, that real variables (output and real interest rates) and nominal variables (money value of output and the interest rate) can be analyzed separately
Fisher hypothesis
correlation between the rate of interest and the rate of inflation
Twin deficits hypothesis
hypothesis in economics
Unified growth theory
Theory of economic growth
innovation economics
economic theory of innovation
disequilibrium macroeconomics
research dealing with disequilibrium in economics
Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem
theorem in general equilibrium economics about the excess demand curve