Population and the invisible hand

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Citation: Demeny, Paul (1986) Population and the invisible hand. Demography (RSS)
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): Population and the invisible hand
Tagged: uw-madison (RSS), wisconsin (RSS), sociology (RSS), demography (RSS), prelim (RSS), qual (RSS), WisconsinDemographyPrelimAugust2009 (RSS)

Summary

The essence of the population problem is that individual decisions with respect to demographic acts do not add up to a recognized common good that choices at the individual level are not congruent with the collective interest. Is the invisible hand working? Does it have anything to do with population anyway?