Heterodox
Keynes views on population growth and immigration can be easily found from a reading of John Toye’s book Keynes on Population (Oxford, 2000; reviews of the book include Dimand 2003 and Harcourt 2002). The purpose of this post is not to evaluate whether Keynes was right on every detail, but to just state what he thought on this subject in the years before the First World War. In 2 May 1914, Keynes gave a paper called “Is the Problem of Population a Pressing and Important one Now?” at New...
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