OPTIMUM POPULATION AND GROWTH - NEW LOOK - MODIFICATION TO INCLUDE A PREFERENCE FOR CHILDREN IN WELFARE FUNCTION

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. The difficulty of defining the optimum is enormous; so far as I know, no one has seriously tackled this problem. Reaching an acceptable and stable solution will surely require more than one generation of hard analytical work-and much persuasion.1 1 Hardin [9], Presidential address presented before the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, utah State University, Logan, 25 June 1968. Professor Hardin is a professor of biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. © 1969.