________ believed that to increase agricultural output, people would be forced to farm land more intensively, in which case the returns to successive increases in population would diminish.
A) Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo
B) Adam Smith and John Baptiste Say
C) John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman
D) Arthur Okun and Arthur Laffer

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This statement is in line with the ideas of Thomas Malthus, who believed that population growth would eventually outstrip food production, leading to poverty and starvation. David Ricardo also shared this view and believed that increasing agricultural output through more intensive farming would ultimately lead to diminishing returns.

________ Believed That to Increase Agricultural Output, People Would Be