Eugine_Nier comments on Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 31 May 2012 01:11:45AM 6 points [-]

famines and similar overshoots happened all the time throughout history, and still do, even in the past few unusual non-equilibrium centuries.

Caplan would argue, and I largely agree with him, that modern famines are caused by bad economic policies rather that overpopulation.

Comment author: DSimon 31 May 2012 06:31:53PM 4 points [-]

Are the negative effects of these bad policies increased by overpopulation?