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It may seem intuitively obvious that a country should have an optimum population level: i.e., the citizens of the country would be better off at this level of population than if the population, were less or if it were greater. But intuition can be misleading; therefore, a more careful analysis is needed.
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Singer, S.F. (1973). Is there an optimum level of population?. In: Weintraub, A., Schwartz, E., Aronson, J.R. (eds) The Economic Growth Controversy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02214-4_8
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