Once Malthusian logic was broken—the constraint that high births lead to starvation—there are no longer any balancing mechanisms to stabilize fertility decisions.

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Luigi Zingales

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in the fertility decision once we broke the Malian logic that if uh you produce too many kids you don't feed them and so they starve and Etc once we you broke that there is nothing that is balancing them off right 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, 7:34:44 AM

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