A Market for Human Reproduction Rights

Theodore Lianos

South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 2017, vol. 15, issue 1, 7-13

Abstract: The size of the world population approaches 7.5 billion and is predicted to increase in the 21st century. Various studies have estimated that the optimum world population size is around 3 billion. The present note proposes a policy for reducing the world population by introducing a universal law stipulating that each couple will be given three shares, each one representing the right to give birth to half a child. These shares can be traded in an international stock market. Thus, an international market for human reproduction rights will be created where people can sell or buy shares according to the number of children they wish to have. Consequently, on average, there will be one and a half children per family, but families can have none or one, two, three, etc. children, depending on their supply of shares. This policy could reduce world population to approximately 4 billion in about a century.

Keywords: Human Reproduction Rights; Population; China; Population Controls (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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