Definition 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).

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Kid
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Malory
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Mann
Thomas Merton
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Moore
Thomas More
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nelson Page
Thomas Paine
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Reid
Thomas Robert Malthus (current term)
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Straussler
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Wright Waller
Thomas Young
Thomas a Becket
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas splint
Thomas the doubting Apostle

Literary usage of Thomas Robert Malthus

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

1. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1902)
"Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), author of the £ssay on the Principle of Population, was born of good family at his father's estate near Dorking, ..."

2. Introduction to Economics by John Roscoe Turner (1919)
"Environment of Thomas Robert Malthus. 15. The Malthusian theory. 16. The persistence of the doctrine. 17. Rates of birth and death. 18. ..."

3. The Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus by Charles Robert Drysdale (1892)
"... that he was a denizen of the century ; and that he lived most part of his life in the neighbourhood of London. Thomas Robert Malthus was born at the ..."

4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"He was the author of several works, published anonymously, which met with considerable success. Thomas Robert Malthus, who was his second son, ..."

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