Malthus, Thomas

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 ).

Malthus's pessimistic views, along with those of David Ricardo , earned economics the reputation of being the “dismal science.”

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Bailey, likewise, contrasts sharply with past conservative ideas of Malthus, Thomas Jefferson, and other anti-modernists.

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Malthus, Thomas R., death of, 339; "Essay on Population," 43.

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Jefferson, Thomas Mann, Thomas

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