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John Maynard Keynes

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes suggests that having too many people being born in a country can cause more social and political change than new ways of thinking or bad government. He implies that population growth can challenge traditional rules and structures more strongly than ideas or autocratic mistakes.

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