The Population Scare

John Jewkes

Chapter 10 in A Return to Free Market Economics?, 1978, pp 211-227 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the past, political arithmeticians and economists who have been courageous enough to embark upon long-distance forecasts of changes in population and of their economic consequences have been notoriously unfortunate. Gregory King1 estimated that the population of England would slowly grow to eleven millions by 2300 A.D. Malthus,2 writing at a time when the population of England and Wales was around nine millions was palpably in error as to the limits of growth possible without a fall in the standard of living.

Keywords: Income Group; Small Family; Population Policy; Income Class; Capital Equipment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03542-7_10

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