Keynes on Population

by John Toye

Overview

Keynes on Population publishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts omitted from the Collected 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198293620
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/14/2000
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Population and the Terms of Trade from Malthus to Keynes2. Keynes's Manuscript on 'Population'3. 'Population': A Commentary4. The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit5. Capitalism and Contraception 1919-19366. England's Incredible Shrinking Population