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Population and Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

P. R. Cox  and
C. J. Thomas
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The attention of actuaries was directed to problems of population and resources in part of a paper read to the Institute in 1956. The general character of these problems has not changed during the past eleven years. Our understanding of the matters at issue has become deeper, however, as the result of new research. One way and another, a great deal has been written on the subject—sometimes revealing less about population than about the writer's philosophy or beliefs. In the English language alone, several hundred new references have been added to the list in recent years, and many of these have been read by the authors, whose original intention was to write a critical review of the latest literature. Recent writings are so diversified over a wide area of inquiry, however, that sharp disagreements are relatively few. In these circumstances, an expository treatment seems more appropriate than a critical appreciation of controversies, though ranges of views on particular topics can be discussed.

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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 94 , Issue 1 , June 1968 , pp. 1 - 52
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1968

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