The state and the stork : the population debate and policy making in US history /

"From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shift since the late 1960s, Americans of al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoff, Derek S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations
  • The birth of the modern population debate
  • Population depressed
  • Population unbound
  • Managing the great society's population growth
  • The new environmental state and the zero population growth movement
  • Defusing the population bomb
  • Population aged.