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Malthus

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Mal·thus  (mlths), Thomas Robert 1766-1834.
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.
Mal·thusian (-thzhn, -z-n) adj. & n.
Mal·thusian·ism n.
Malthus [ˈmælθəs]
n
(Biographies / Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834) M, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE: economist) Thomas Robert. 1766-1834, English economist. He propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
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Noun1.Malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)Malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Stepan Arkadyevitch described what grouse moors this Malthus had bought in the Tver province, and how they were preserved, and of the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven, and the luncheon pavilion that had been rigged up at the marsh.
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This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
He quoted Spencer and Malthus, and enunciated the biological law of development.
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