From Malthus to the Club of Rome and back : problems of limits to growth, population control, and migrations / Paul Neurath.

Preface, ix -- 1. The early history of demography before Malthus, 3 -- 2. How many people could live on this earth? Changes of an argument, 39 -- 3. The "limits to growth" debate: from Malthus to the "Club of Rome" and Back, 58 -- 4. Models of the world's problems and problems with the world models, 92 -- 5. Comments at the 6th global modeling conference, Vienna-Laxenburg, 1978, 126 -- 6. On a Contradiction within the Bariloche Model (It computes for the people of Asia more years of average life expectancy than food on which to live that long), 130 -- 7. The price and availability of oil and the food situation of the third world, 145 -- 8. Chinese population policy from 1949 to 1984, 155 -- 9. Population policies in japan, china, and India: a comparison of problems and of measures taken, 181 -- 10. The great migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth century, 195 -- Index, 219 -- About the author, 227.