dc.contributor.author | Lawson, James A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-05-15T14:43:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-05-15T14:43:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1851 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lawson, James A. 'The over-population fallacy considered'. - Dublin: Transactions of the Dublin Statistical Society, Vol 2, 1849-1851, pp1-9 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 00814776 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL R23 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL J11 | |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9279 | |
dc.description | Read November 19th 1849 | en |
dc.description.abstract | We hear so much at the present day about over-population and
the remedies suggested for that disease, that I think it will not be
uninteresting to inquire what over-population is, when it can properly
be said to exist, and how we are to determine whether it
does exist in a country.
The question of over-population I propose to treat this evening
merely in an economic view, in order to determine the proper
meaning and application of the word, and to point out the circumstances
which indicate its existence. It admits of course of being
treated as a statistical question, by ascertaining from actual returns
the number, and by comparison with previous returns the rate of
increase, of the population, and deriving from other returns the
rate of production of these commodities which the population consumed.
An inquiry of that kind, properly conducted, would be
most important, as showing the relative growths of population
and subsistence in any country. It is not my design to enter into,
that question at present; and, indeed, in order to derive the full
benefit from such an inquiry, we should in the first instance investigate
some of the abstract relations between population and subsistence. | en |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. II 1849-1851 | en |
dc.relation.haspart | Vol. [No.], [Year] | en |
dc.source.uri | http://www.ssisi.ie | |
dc.subject | Overpopulation | en |
dc.subject | Productive capacity | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 314.15 | |
dc.title | The over-population fallacy considered | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | |