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Malthus

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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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Malthus

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Thomas Robert. 1766–1834, English economist. He propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

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Malthus

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Thomas Robert1766-1834; Eng. economist

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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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