This Sin and Scandal: Australia's Population Debate 1891-1911

Dioxin scandal triggers food debate in Germany.

Changing family size in England and Wales: place, class and demography, 1891–1911

photography" (pp. 5-6), but most of the argument actually deals with published works. The reader continually stumbles over statements that are challengeable, or entirely too absolute, and tend to vitiate the strengths of the work. Early on, we read that "[t]here is a strict division of labour: it is women who produce perishable bodies, while men make lasting cultural artefacts" (p. 10): not pla...

Gustave Malécot, 1911-1998. Population genetics founding father.

IN November 1998 we lost one of the most important cot completed his mathematics degree at the École Normale Superieure in Paris (Nagylaki 1989). Malécot scientists of this century, Gustave Malécot. He was, in the best sense of the words, a great man. His contributold me how he had spent 2 years reading and mastering (no doubt in rigorous mathematical detail) Fisher’s artitions to science and m...

The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revisited 1.0 Revisionism and the Population Debate 1.1 Setting

Demographic Studies, Duke University. An early version of this paper was presented at the Nobel Symposium in Economics, December 5-7, Lund, Sweden, 1991. I wish to acknowledge comments on this earlier draft by Nancy Birdsall, John Bongaarts, Martin Bronfenbrenner, A. W. Coats, Ansley J. Coale, Peter J. Donaldson, Richard A. Easterlin, Dennis Hodgson, Nathan Keyfitz, Geoffrey McNicoll, Thomas W....

The Population Debate - November 2004

The Population Debate W ith around four babies born every minute, Philippine population is expected to hit 84.2 million by the end of the year. Growing at an average of 2.3% annually, the country’s population has increased fourfold since the 1950s. It now ranks 14th in the world in terms of population size and 8th in terms of population density. This phenomenon is seen either as an onus or a gi...