In 1798, Thomas Malthus told the world to expect collapse – “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
Wrong from the start:
04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Claims about Japanese immigration
26 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: Japan
Japan will become an immigration powerhouse. Before the pandemic, the country was on track to accept about 150,000 new non-Japanese employees per year. This more than doubled to almost 350,000 in the first half of 2023. There are now approximately 3.2 million non-Japanese residents of Japan, up from barely half a million 30 years ago. […]
Claims about Japanese immigration
David D. Friedman – The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, population economics, property rights, Public Choice
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics
That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
Baby Busts and Bank Crashes: A Conversation with Demographer Nicholas Eb…
20 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, population economics Tags: baby bust, economics of banking
19 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Thomas Sowell – Illegal Immigration Explained (Q&A) Migrations & Cultures
15 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics Tags: economics of immigration
How is over- population going
08 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: Japan
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Why China’s population is shrinking
29 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing population, China
Population bombs
07 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing population, China, India, population bomb, The fatal conceit
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Australian fertility
17 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: Australia, economics of fertility
Economic Growth in the Long Run: Artificial Intelligence Explosion or an Empty Planet? Ben Jones & Chad Jones
27 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, economics of fertility, endogenous growth theory
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