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Malthus, Thomas
- A British economist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially concerned with overpopulation.
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Notes
Malthusian theories hold that populations will always increase faster than food supplies and that, therefore, hunger will always exist among the poorest populations ( see Malthusianism ).
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Example Sentences
Indeed, the Tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus.
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