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Malthus, Thomas Robert

Syllabification: (Mal·thus, Thomas Robert)

Pronunciation: /ˈmalTHəs, ˈmôl-/

Definition of Malthus, Thomas Robert

(1766–1834), English economist and clergyman. In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) he argued that without the practice of “moral restraint” the population tends to increase at a greater rate than its means of subsistence, resulting in the population checks of war, famine, and epidemic.