Malthus, Thomas
[ (mal-thuhs) ]
A British economist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially concerned with overpopulation.
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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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