Once humans broke the Malthusian logic that overpopulation leads to starvation, there is nothing balancing fertility decisions off—if all people decide not to have children, there are no incentives for others to produce more children

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Speaker

Luigi Zales

Evidence Quote

in a sense if all of a sudden people decide that they don't want to have kids it's not that there are incentives for other to produce more kids

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall FergusonStigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:18:48 AM

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