We've been taught for generations that India's biggest problem is its population. This is a lie. Our population is our greatest strength. People are brains, not stomachs.

Welcome to Episode 20 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit discusses the origin of the flawed belief that population is a problem -- and states his case for why population density is the greatest driver of prosperity. Most problems ascribed to population are actually problems of governance. He goes over India's troubled history with population control, which is premised on the evil belief that the state can control the bodies of its citizens. Ajay then makes a case for why we should never fear population booms -- and instead be wary of fertility busts. Both men also recommend great books written long ago about the present time.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 Teaser and packaging
01:02 Introduction: Maggots on a Dead Cow
01:27 Chapter 1: People Are Brains, Not Stomachs
05:20 Chapter 2: The Horrors of Population Control
21:33 Chapter 3: Population and Freedom
48:22 Chapter 4: Julian Simon Writes to Milton Friedman
52:56 Chapter 5: Ajay's Recco
54:20 Chapter 6: Amit's Recco

ESSENTIAL READING:

1. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma: [ Ссылка ]
2. The Ultimate Resource -- Julian Simon: [ Ссылка ] & [ Ссылка ]

USEFUL RESOURCES:

1. Amit on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
2. Ajay on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: [ Ссылка ]
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: [ Ссылка ])
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: [ Ссылка ]
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: [ Ссылка ]
7. Too Many People -- Nicholas Eberstadt: [ Ссылка ]
8. The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause -- Julian Simon: [ Ссылка ]
9. An Essay on the Principle of Population -- Thomas Robert Malthus: [ Ссылка ]
10. The Population Bomb -- Paul Ehrlich: [ Ссылка ]
11. The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation -- Charles Mann: [ Ссылка ]
12. The Emergency -- Coomi Kapoor: [ Ссылка ]
13. Coomi Kapoor Has the Inside Track — Episode 305 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
14. The Simon–Ehrlich wager: [ Ссылка ]
15. Triumph of the City -- Edward Glaeser: [ Ссылка ]
16. The Skeptical Environmentalist -- Bjørn Lomborg: [ Ссылка ]
17. The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Hannah Arendt: [ Ссылка ]
18. What Bruce Springsteen Means to Us -- Episode 13 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
19. The State of the Ukraine War -- Episode 14 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
20. Understanding Baumol’s Cost Disease And Its Impact On Healthcare -- Varun Ganapathi: [ Ссылка ]
21. The Evil of Family Planning (2014) -- Amit Varma: [ Ссылка ]
22. Economic Learnings of India for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Bihar -- Episode 345 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satyanand and Kumar Anand): [ Ссылка ]
23. The Effect of Age-Specific Sex Ratios on Crime: Instrumental Variable Estimates from India -- Rashmi Barua, Prarthna Goel and Renuka Sane: [ Ссылка ]
24. Yuganta -- Irawati Karve: [ Ссылка ]

Produced by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah
Shot by Vartika Singh: [ Ссылка ]
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: [ Ссылка ]
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: [ Ссылка ]
Chapter images & additional illustrations by Simahina: [ Ссылка ]

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