thomas robert malthus

Definition of Thomas Robert Malthus in English :

Noun

1. malthus, thomas malthus, thomas robert malthus

an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)

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Thomas Robert Malthus

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British economist who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), arguing that population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results, unless the increase in population is checked by moral restraints or by war, famine, and disease.

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