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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats