Definition of Thomas Malthus

1. Noun. An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).

Exact synonyms: Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
Generic synonyms: Economic Expert, Economist
Derivative terms: Malthusian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Malthus

Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Huxley
Thomas J. Hanks
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
Thomas Kid
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Malory
Thomas Malthus (current term)
Thomas Mann
Thomas Merton
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Moore
Thomas More
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nelson Page
Thomas Paine
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Reid
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Straussler
Thomas Sully

Literary usage of Thomas Malthus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Admirals of the Caribbean by Francis Russell Hart (1922)
"The records of the complaint of Morgan against Thomas Malthus (Court of King's ... but notwithstanding this, Thomas “Malthus, not unacquainted with these ..."

2. Thomas Sydenham by Joseph Frank Payne (1900)
"Thomas Malthus, the political economist, author of the celebrated "Essays on Population." Our knowledge of the family and descendants of Sydenham is very ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), the French Revolution had caused the downfall of the old social system, without improving the condition of the French people; ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), the French Revolution had caused the downfall of the old social system, without improving the condition of the French people; ..."

5. Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1916)
"... and none with more notable results than Thomas Malthus,1 who applied the keen scrutiny of a highly gifted scientific mind to the startling increase in ..."

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