The topic of population is treated only lightly in the major modern
biographies of John Maynard Keynes, yet Keynes himself had strong -
if varying - views on the subject. For many years he maintained a
neo-Malthusian view of population, based on a postulated link
between population growth and deteriorating terms of trade. This
led him to take up a militant stance towards 'overpopulated'
countries, notably India, China, and Egypt. Keynes on Population
publishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts not published in
the Collected Writings: his Cambridge lectures on population and
1914 Oxford lecture on 'Population'. It provides a detailed
commentary on the text of 'Population' and discusses the extent of
Keynes's engagement with the Social Darwinist doctrine of the
'rapid multiplication of the unfit' and with eugenics. It then
traces the subsequent vicissitudes of his views on population and
his interventions in the contemporary politics of population. These
include his part in the 1920s campaign for birth control, the
reversal of his neo-Malthusianism, and his eventual support for
family allowances.
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