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Malthus, Thomas
     
Malthus, Thomas
(1766-1834) a British economist who studied population growth. He is famous for his opinion that, if the world's population was not controlled by disease, wars, or by sexual restraint, it would grow faster than the world's food supply.
—Malthusian adjective
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