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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malthusian \Mal*thu"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories. See Malthus.
Note: Malthus held that population tends to increase faster than its means of subsistence can be made to do, and hence that the lower classes must necessarily suffer more or less from lack of food, unless an increase of population be checked by prudential restraint or otherwise. The steadily increasing capacity of world economic systems and food production has proven this theory to be at least premature, since economic production has increased notably faster than population since the time of Malthus. The general notion that there is an ultimate limit on the ability of mankind to continue increasing food and goods in proportion to population is still held by many people, especially environmentalists, some of whom who feel that the chief limiting factor will be the inability to dispose of the waste products of industry, leading to a steady degradation of the environment in the absence of population limitation. However, even those that believe this differ widely in their estimates of when this limit will be reached.
Malthusian \Mal*thu"sian\, n. A follower of Malthus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1812, from the teachings of English economist Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1835), especially with regard to population increase. As an adjective by 1818. Related: Malthusianism.
Usage examples of "malthusian".
The term, which originated from the narrow Malthusian conception of competition between each and all, thus lost its narrowness in the mind of one who knew Nature.
A larger proportion of squirrels of the new, better adapted variety would survive every year, and the intermediate links would die in the course of time, without having been starved out by Malthusian competitors.
But when all was said, he remained almost convinced that the Malthusian hypotheses would prove as false in the future as they had proved false in the past.
Remember the Malthusian doctrine, and that the mind breeds in even more rapid geometrical ratio than the body.
The Malthusian theory,- -the law of the increase of the population in geometrical, and of the means of subsistence in arithmetical proportion, and the wise and natural means of restricting the population,--all these have become scientific, indubitable truths, which have not been confirmed, but which have been employed as axioms, for the erection of false theories.
Exactly the same thing appeared to be the case with the Hegelian doctrine, in a greater degree, and also in the special instance of the Malthusian doctrine.
Committee of 300 ruled post industrial America, Peccei proposed a Malthusian triaging on a global scale.
Carlson rejoiced over the carnage that ensued, though a strict Malthusian might have considered it as a long-overdue pruning.
Millions died but world population continued its inexorable increase toward the Malthusian limits of starvation, plague, and war.
From the first, as far as he knew, the saurs had patiently explained the germ theory of disease and its consequences, and something like the Malthusian principle of population and its consequences.
Gold, who suggested the incorporation of a robot detective and the Malthusian outlook on overpopulation.
He talked about the riches waiting in space, escape from Malthusian limits to growth, the ability to save the species from such calamities as an asteroid collision with the Earth, and so forth.
Surely there must be some better, happier, humaner way between the Malthusian horns.
And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort.
It was a simple Malthusian Population differential equation, or a damped forced oscillator in engineering terms.