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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).

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Literary usage of Thomas Malthus

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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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