Maldonado, Erick José Limas; Brida, Juan Gabriel - EconWPA - 2005
exponential population growth with a simple and more realistic equation - the Von Bertalanffy model. This model utilizes three … hypotheses about human population growth: (1) when population size is small, growth is exponential; (2) population is bounded …; and (3) the rate of population growth decreases to zero as time tends toward infinity. After making this substitution, the …