Population and Returns

Lord Robbins

Chapter Lecture Two in The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought, 1968, pp 22-43 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The object of this lecture is to trace the history of thought relating to the connection between population growth and economic development. This is not a matter which appears very frequently in the modern discussions of the theory of development although I should hope that we are by now all aware of the truly frightening prospects looming ahead which are due to this factor. But it figures large in earlier thought on our subject. In the classical outlook, to discuss development without considering the tendencies of population growth would have been to omit the most essential ingredient; and in this respect I am inclined to think that, with all its obvious imperfection, classical thought was of considerably more practical significance than most of the theoretical models of our own day. I make no apology therefore for putting this subject first in my series of more detailed surveys.

Keywords: Political Economy; Subsistence Level; Classical Outlook; Deliberate Control; Classical Thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1968
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00149-1_2

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