Economic Theory of Optimal Population (eBook)

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.