A lecture delivered before the Eugenics Society in 1937. The author warned against the widespread assumption that a stationary or declining population would be an unmitigated social and economic good. According to his theoretical framework a declining population would lead to a lower level of effective demand lower aggregate savings less capital accumulation and ultimately a higher level of unemployment.
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John Maynard Keynes (1978) studied this question.