Associations to the word «Malthus»

MALTHUS, proper noun. A rare surname​ derived from the word for malthouse.

MALTHUS, proper noun. Specifically, Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed the view that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.

MALTHUS, noun. An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).