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Keynes on Population

Keynes on Population Book Reviews the time of his Galton Lecture in 1937, Keynes was concerned with the supposed prospect of falling population (with contraception treated as an issue of personal freedom). Toye makes a significant scholarly contribution with his exposition of Keynes’s neo-Malthusian lectures of 1912 and 1914, the Keynes-Beveridge exchange of 1923– 24, Keynes’s involvement in the birth control movement, and Keynes’s recantation of neo-Malthusian worries about expanding population shifting the terms of trade (notably in his Galton Lecture). Toye is on shakier ground in trying to make much of Keynes’s occasional casual expression of anti-Semitic stereotypes then prevalent among the English upper classes (and also in a digression asserting that H. G. Wells was free of such stereotypes). Anand Chandavarkar (2000, 1622) reports that “Keynes was the only non-Jewish member of a high-powered advisory committee under the chairmanship of Herbert Samuel which prepared the preliminary draft report for presentation of the Zionist case for a Jewish national home in Palestine, for the Peace Conference in Paris on February 23, 1919,” discusses Keynes’s advocacy in 1938 of a peace offer to Germany that would allow free emigration and naturalization of German and Austrian Jews, and recalls Keynes’s wartime intervention http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png History of Political Economy Duke University Press

Keynes on Population

Dimand, Robert W.
History of Political Economy , Volume 35 (4) – Dec 1, 2003
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0018-2702
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1527-1919
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10.1215/00182702-35-4-784
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Book Reviews the time of his Galton Lecture in 1937, Keynes was concerned with the supposed prospect of falling population (with contraception treated as an issue of personal freedom). Toye makes a significant scholarly contribution with his exposition of Keynes’s neo-Malthusian lectures of 1912 and 1914, the Keynes-Beveridge exchange of 1923– 24, Keynes’s involvement in the birth control movement, and Keynes’s recantation of neo-Malthusian worries about expanding population shifting the terms of trade (notably in his Galton Lecture). Toye is on shakier ground in trying to make much of Keynes’s occasional casual expression of anti-Semitic stereotypes then prevalent among the English upper classes (and also in a digression asserting that H. G. Wells was free of such stereotypes). Anand Chandavarkar (2000, 1622) reports that “Keynes was the only non-Jewish member of a high-powered advisory committee under the chairmanship of Herbert Samuel which prepared the preliminary draft report for presentation of the Zionist case for a Jewish national home in Palestine, for the Peace Conference in Paris on February 23, 1919,” discusses Keynes’s advocacy in 1938 of a peace offer to Germany that would allow free emigration and naturalization of German and Austrian Jews, and recalls Keynes’s wartime intervention

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