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dc.contributor.authorLawson, James A.
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-15T14:43:08Z
dc.date.available2007-05-15T14:43:08Z
dc.date.issued1851
dc.identifier.citationLawson, James A. 'The over-population fallacy considered'. - Dublin: Transactions of the Dublin Statistical Society, Vol 2, 1849-1851, pp1-9en
dc.identifier.issn00814776
dc.identifier.otherJEL R23
dc.identifier.otherJEL J11
dc.identifier.otherY
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/9279
dc.descriptionRead November 19th 1849en
dc.description.abstractWe 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.publisherStatistical and Social Inquiry Society of Irelanden
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Irelanden
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. II 1849-1851en
dc.relation.haspartVol. [No.], [Year]en
dc.source.urihttp://www.ssisi.ie
dc.subjectOverpopulationen
dc.subjectProductive capacityen
dc.subject.ddc314.15
dc.titleThe over-population fallacy considereden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.status.refereedYes


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