Malthus
[ mal-thuhs ]
/ ˈmæl θəs /
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noun
Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
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Malthus
/ (ˈmælθəs) /
noun
Thomas Robert. 1766–1834, English economist. He propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
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