Malthus
/ˈmælθəs/- Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834), English economist and clergyman. In Essay on 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.马尔萨斯, 托马斯·罗伯特(1766-1834, 英国经济学家、教士; 在《人口论》[1798]中, 他断言如不实行道德约束, 人口的增长速度会超过人类生存手段的增长速度, 从而导致战争、饥荒和瘟疫等抑制人口增长的情况出现)。
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