Thomas Robert Malthus

Definitions of Thomas Robert Malthus
  1. noun
    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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    an expert in the science of economics
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