NOUN
- an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
How To Use Thomas Malthus In A Sentence
- The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.