British economist who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population(1798), arguing that population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results, unless the increase in population is checked by moral restraints or by war, famine, and disease.马尔萨斯，托马斯·罗伯特1766－1834英国经济学家，著有人口论(1798年), 认为人口的增长比食物供应的增长要快，除非对人口的增长采用道德的约束或战争、饥荒和瘟疫加以抑制，否则会导致不可避免的灾难后果
