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    Ester Boserup and Julian Simon were anti-Malthusian theorists who argued that population growth is not limited by food supply and can promote technological advancement. Boserup believed that population increase would lead to agricultural intensification through innovations like shorter fallow periods, multicropping, and crop rotation. She argued this would allow food production to keep pace with population growth. Similarly, Simon believed humanity is not constrained by finite resources and that population growth could be beneficial by incentivizing innovations to replace scarce resources. Both rejected Malthus' idea that population would outgrow food supply, arguing people will always innovate to overcome scarcity caused by growing populations.

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    Ester Boserup and Julian Simon were anti-Malthusian theorists who argued that population growth is not limited by food supply and can promote technological advancement. Boserup believed that population increase would lead to agricultural intensification through innovations like shorter fallow periods, multicropping, and crop rotation. She argued this would allow food production to keep pace with population growth. Similarly, Simon believed humanity is not constrained by finite resources and that population growth could be beneficial by incentivizing innovations to replace scarce resources. Both rejected Malthus' idea that population would outgrow food supply, arguing people will always innovate to overcome scarcity caused by growing populations.

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    INTRODUCTION TO ESTER BOSERUP & JULIAN  Short-fallow: A system in which the fallow

    SIMON (ANTI MALTHUSIAN THEORISTS) is one or two years. In the fallow period
    the land is invaded by wild grasses.
    Prepared by: GROUP 3  Annual cropping: The land is left
    uncultivated for only several months
    ESTER BOSERUP between harvest and planting. Within this
    group Boserup also includes crop rotation
    Ester Boserup was a Danish economist. She systems.
    studied economic and agricultural development, 
    worked at the United Nations as well as other  Multi-cropping: Occurs when the same
    international organizations, and wrote seminal plot of land bears two or more crops every
    books on agrarian change and the role of year; in such a system there is no real
    women in development. fallow period.

    Born: May 18, 1910, Frederiksberg, Denmark JULIAN SIMON


    Died: September 24, 1999, Ascona, Switzerland
    Education: Copenhagen University Julian Lincoln Simon was an American professor
    Nationality: Danish of business administration at the University of
    Spouse: Mogens Boserup (m. 1931–1978) Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato
    Parents: Holger Victor Børgesen, Talke Institute at the time of his death, after
    Margrethe Cathrine Hansen previously serving as a longtime economics and
    business professor at the University of Illinois at
    Points: Urbana-Champaign
     “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
     According to Boserup, no matter how large Born: February 12, 1932, Newark, New Jersey,
    the world’s population increased, people United States
    would always be able to produce enough Died: February 8, 1998, Chevy Chase Manor,
    food to suit their requirements. Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
     Boserup believes that when the world’s Education: Harvard University, The University of
    food supply became depleted, people Chicago
    would respond with technical
    advancements that would improve food Points:
    production  He applied an economics lens to issues of
     Population increase had a beneficial effect population growth, economic
    on people, allowing them to cope. development and resource use.
     Population expansion is beneficial since it  He believed that humanity was not limited
    promotes technological advancements. by the physical constraints of the finite
     Technology will save the day! planet, and that population growth, could
    in the right conditions, be beneficial rather
    THEORY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT than harmful.
     His optimistic view was based on his belief
    Boserup argues that population growth is that the human mind, the fount of
    independent of food supply and that population innovation, was the ‘ultimate resource’.
    increase is a cause of changes in agriculture. The  Simon claims that from an economic
    principal means of increasing agricultural output perspective, resource scarcity increases
    is intensification. the cost of a product, thus creating
    incentive to find alternative materials.
    STAGES OF AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT Basically, if wood becomes scarce, then it
     Forrest-fallow: Plots of land are cleared in becomes expensive and people start
    the forest and planted for a year or two. looking for a new material. Once a new
    The land is then left fallow in order for the material replaces wood, then wood
    forest to regenerate, from 20-25 years. becomes dramatically cheaper.
     Bush-fallow: The fallow period is only six to
    ten years in which time the land is covered
    in bush and small trees.

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