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Notice how little evidence we have for most human societies in history to be really close to Malthusian population bounds.
It's really incompatible with evidence unless you take "extreme long term view" like Robin, in which case it becomes essentially non-empirical.
Surely we have good evidence that the growth rate in income per capita was very near zero over a million years The Malthusian theory clearly predicts that near zero number - what other theory do you prefer?