Toward a Cure for the Myopia and Tunnel Vision of the Population Debate: A Dose of Historical Perspective

Allen C. Kelley

No 95-10, Working Papers from Duke University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A survey of the literature by economists specializing in population issues reveals a distinctly non-alarmist assessment of the impacts of rapid population growth. This is contrary to the assessments by non-specialists, and those in other fields. Economists tend to emphasize longer-run impacts, where feedbacks tend to attenuate negative short-run impacts of rapid demographic change.

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Date: 1995
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Published in THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON WELL-BEING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, edited by Dennis A. Ahlburg, Allen C. Kelley and Karen Oppenheim Mason (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), 1996, pages 11-35

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