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ИКОНОМИЧЕСКИ ТЕОРИИ ЗА НАСЕЛЕНИЕТО
ECONOMIC THEORIES ON POPULATION

Author(s): Diana Sabotinova
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Бургаски свободен университет
Keywords: Malthusian population theory; a law of population; overpopulation; optimal population; demographic transition; population ageing.

Summary/Abstract: Economic theories of the relationship between population and economic prosperity vary across the full spectrum of possible opinions. Since the productivity of world output is directly related to the population it is essential that proper balance is maintained between human population numbers and the natural world. There should be also a balance between the benefits to a society of a desired demographic outcome and the costs to the society of achieving it. A too rapidly growing or declining population would obviously involve many severe problems, so measures ought to be taken to prevent it.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 84-115
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Bulgarian