Associations to the word «Malthus»

Wiktionary

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.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery