Keynes on population and economic growth
梳理凯恩斯关于人口问题的思想演变，包括其早期新马尔萨斯主义、与贝弗里奇的辩论、后期观点转变及对节育的看法，并评估熊彼特的批评是否成立。
This paper provides an account of the development of John Maynard Keynes's writings on population, the subject which many of his contemporaries saw as his intellectual Achilles' heel. In particular, it shows the central role of Keynes's unpublished manuscript entitled 'Population' in the evolution of his later work on this topic (i.e., chapter II of The Economic Consequences of Peace and his biographical essay on Malthus). This has hitherto been underestimated. The content of Keynes' early neo-Malthusianism is explored. His defeat in debate with W. H. Beveridge in 1923-24 and the phases of his subsequent recantation of neo-Malthusianism are then considered, as are his views on birth control. The paper concludes with an assessment of whether J. A. Schumpeter's negative judgement of Keynes on population can be sustained. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.