Thomas Malthus

Thomas Malthus
noun
an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Malthusian (for: ↑Malthus)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑economist, ↑economic expert

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Thomas Malthus [Thomas Malthus]
(1766–1834) an English ↑economist and priest. In his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) he suggested that human populations grow faster than the supply of food, and that unless population growth is artificially controlled, this leads to poverty and an increased death rate. His ideas were an important influence on Charles ↑Darwin.

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