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Thomas Robert Malthus   Listen
Thomas Robert Malthus

noun
1.
An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).  Synonyms: Malthus, Thomas Malthus.





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... the past have conceived, as has already been said, that the growth of population might be reduced to very simple and definite laws. Among the first who proposed laws governing population was an English economist, Thomas Robert Malthus, whose active career coincides with the first quarter of the nineteenth century. In 1798 Malthus put forth a little book which he entitled An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects the future improvement of society. This essay went through numerous editions and revisions, ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood


Words linked to "Thomas Robert Malthus" :   economic expert, economist, Thomas Malthus


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