Optimum population
The optimum population is a concept where the human population is able to balance maintaining a maximum population size with optimal standards of living for all people.
Overview[edit]
The concept of an optimum, or ideal, size of population concerns both theory and policy. Theoretically, there is for any given state of the arts and any given supply of available natural resources, together with a given supply of capital instruments and a given social organization, a certain size of population which can operate these resources to the best advantage and produce the largest per capita income of consumers' goods possible under the given conditions.
— Albert B. Wolfe in 1929[1]
Regarding the human population, end-targets for an optimum population include ecological sustainability, economic output,[2] and philosophical or ethical ends-in-themselves.
Some commentators disagree with the concept of "optimum population", believing that the human population will always, in the long-term, be able to adapt to the requirements of a larger population.[3]
Estimations[edit]
See also[edit]
- Environmental impact of agriculture
- Environmental impact of shipping
- Habitat destruction
- Human impact on the environment
- Human overpopulation
- List of largest consumer markets
- List of population concern organizations
- List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density
- Optimum sustainable yield
- Population density
- Population growth
- Quality of life
- Sustainability
- Welfare economics
References[edit]
- ↑ Wolfe, A. B. (1929). "The Population Problem Since the World War: A Survey of Literature and Research—Concluded". Journal of Political Economy. 37 (1): 87–120. doi:10.1086/253998. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Dasgupta, P. S. (1969). "On the Concept of Optimum Population". The Review of Economic Studies. 36 (3): 295–318. doi:10.2307/2296429. JSTOR 2296429. PMID 12275700.
- ↑ Gilpin, Kenneth N. (1998-02-12). "Julian Simon, 65, Optimistic Economist, Dies". B11. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
External links[edit]
- About optimum populations / Overshoot index, Population Matters (formally the Optimum Population Trust)
- Optimum population, welfare economics, and inequality, Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
- Optimum population? (BBC)
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