Malthus, Thomas (1766–1834)

THOMAS MALTHUS was an English economist and demographer who theorized that population growth tends to exceed food supplies. Thus the improvement of living conditions of humankind is impossible without a strict policy of birth control. Malthus's economic theory is pessimistic ...

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