Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
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18th-century English cleric who spooked the world with population math: people multiply faster than food supplies, therefore suffering is inevitable. His grim arithmetic still haunts debates about resources and human limits.
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Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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