The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90

We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather than on evidence supporting those claims. As such, the popular discussion is well suited for analyzing the changing structure of the political and intellectual debate over the desirability of intervention in population processes. Second, an understanding of the evolution of popular attitudes concerning rapid population growth is essential if demographers wish to influence future population policy. We contend that the creation, in the 1960s and later, of an institutional structure for understanding and altering population-related events was made possible in part by the formation of a consensus among the American public that rapid population growth poses a significant threat to collective well-being-not only to the countries expe

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• The conditions of agricultural growth

  Ester Boserup, Robert Chambers•Conditions of Agricultural Growth•2014

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• Population and the invisible hand

  Open Access•Paul Demeny•Demography•1986

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• American Attitudes on Population Policy

  John F Kantner•Studies in Family Planning•1968

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• Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries

  Open Access•Richard A Easterlin•The Annals of the American…•1967

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• Ideology and Politics at Mexico City

  Jason L Finkle, Barbara B Crane•Population and Development Review•1985

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• Population Growth and Economic Development

  W T Newlyn•Population Studies•1989

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• Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation Contribution

  Albert I Hermalin, John C Caldwell et al.•Population and Development Review•1987

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• Demography as Social Science and Policy Science

  Dennis Hodgson•Population and Development Review•1983

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• Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries

  F Benham, Ansley J Coale et al.•Pacific Affairs•1959

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