Population growth is the easy way to GDP growth, higher land and capital prices, higher revenues, and lower labor costs. At what cost?
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Of course the owners of land and businesses and the government want population growth. Coincidentally, so do economists.
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The easiest way to population growth is immigration, especially if your own people refuse to breed. So economists favor immigration.
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some downsides of population growth: more crowding, fewer natural resources per person, closer to Malthusian ceiling
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Of course, economists also believe that it doesn't really matter who comprises the population growth. Immigrants and native births are equal
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