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Noun: Malthus
  1. An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
    - Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus

See also: Malthusian

Type of: economic expert, economist

Encyclopedia: Malthus Malthus, Thomas Robert

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