Malthus

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Malthus \Malthus\ prop. n.
     Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist who argued that
     increases in population would outgrow increases in the means
     of subsistence (1766-1834).
  
     Syn: Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Malthus
       n : an English economist who argued that increases in population
           would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence
           (1766-1834) [syn: {Thomas Malthus}, {Thomas Robert
           Malthus}]