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Keynes on Population [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Business & Economics)
  • Author:  Toye, John
  • Author:  Toye, John
  • ISBN-10:  0198293623
  • ISBN-10:  0198293623
  • ISBN-13:  9780198293620
  • ISBN-13:  9780198293620
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Pages:  272
  • Pages:  272
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2000
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2000
  • SKU:  0198293623-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0198293623-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100814785
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Keynes on Populationpublishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts omitted from theCollected Writings: his Cambridge lectures on population and 1914 Oxford lecture on Population. It provides a detailed commentary on the text of Population and discusses the extent of Keynes's engagement with the Social Darwinist doctrine of the rapid multiplication of the unfit and with eugenics. It then traces the subsequent vicissitudes of his views on population.

Introduction
1. Population and the Terms of Trade from Malthus to Keynes
2. Keynes's Manuscript on 'Population'
3. 'Population': A Commentary
4. The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit
5. Capitalism and Contraception 1919-1936
6. England's Incredible Shrinking Population
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