Economic Theory of Optimal Population

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Optimum Population: An Introduction.
• I. Optimal Size and Growth Rate of Population.
• Socially Optimal Population Size and Individual Choice.
• Endogenous Population With Discrete Family Size and a Capital Market.
• Is There an Optimal Growth Rate for Population?.
• II. Technical Progress and Social Security.
• Technological Change and Population Growth.
• The Serendipity Theorem Reconsidered: The Three-Generations Case Without Inheritance.
• III. Limited Resources.
• Endogenous Population and Fixed Input in a Growth Model With Altruism.
• On the Malthusian Hypothesis and the Dynamics of Population and Income in an Equilibrium Growth Model With Endogenous Fertility.
• Choice of Fertility and Population Pressure in Traditional Rural Societies.
• IV. International Economics.
• Economic Interdependence and Optimum Population: An Examination of Meade’s Objection to the Individual Utility Criterion.
• An Analysis of International Migration: The Unilateral Case.
• Population, International Trade and Indebtedness: A More General Analysis.
• Author Index.