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This study is primarily concerned with theories of population that have a general application, with a considerable range of illustrative material and fairly numerous references to support the theories. It’s impracticable to attempt to apply the theories here developed to all regions of the earth or even of eastern and southeastern Asia in detail in one book, so the study area is concentrated on Japan.
Part I, deals with the general principles dealing with the advances in technology in banishing the inevitability of poverty and extreme scarcity that have enabled May to conquer Nature. So much has been written on the Malthusian theory that it was the author’s intention to adopt it here in a most suitable manner for the purpose of this study.
If there is not shortage of land and of natural resources in the world as a whole, and if there is an ever increasing supply of inventions and technical improvements, it does not follow that problems of population have ceased to be important. The problem of the distribution of population remains. Hence, the theoretical structure of Part III is based on the fact that a disparity exists, and must always exist, between the distribution of population and the distribution of natural resources. It is this disparity which gives rise to the most important problem of population at the present time…
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Title: Population Theories and Their Application
Author: E.F. Penrose
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1934
ISBN: 080473469X
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stanford press, penrose, food research institute, per capita income, Japan, factors of production, Manchuria, composite commodity, nomic, overpopulation, Malthus, Japa, Japanese, ancestor worship, birth control, optimum population, sumers, immigration, human migration, protectionism, duction, marriage, imperial preference