What Henry George thinks about demographics

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American political economist (1839 to 1897); author of Progress and Poverty.

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1. c. 1877–1880

   Our readingPopulation growth has so far raised, not reduced, average production of wealth

   Their wordsAnd hence, increase of population, so far as it has yet anywhere gone, does not mean a reduction, but an increase in the average production of wealth.

   ↗Progress and Poverty (1879; Memorial Edition)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book