The Malthusian Spectre
Population has always been a critical driver of events and prior to the Industrial Revolution we lived in a zero sum world, with […]
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Is more people the answer for NZ?
The estimated population of New Zealand reached 4,444,444 on the 1st of November 2012. Nothing special other than a rare moment of symmetry in an otherwise random and chaotic world. It is an opportunity to ask a pretty basic question: what is the ideal population for New Zealand? We can’t keep growing our population forever, nor would it make us richer if we did so. When is enough enough?