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Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population

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Matthew Connelly writes about population control as the most ambitious social engineering project of the 20th century. An associate professor of history at Columbia University, Connelly looks into the social costs of programs that sought to discourage migration and promote family planning through such extreme measures as sterilization.

“Mr. Connelly’s most devastating critique of population control is not that it destroyed lives, or was based on imperialist or eugenic ideas, but that it did not work.” —The Economist.

“Passionate and troubling, this study by Columbia University historian Connelly tells the story of the 20th-century international movement to control population, which he sees as an oppressive movement that failed to deliver the promised economic and environmental results.” —Publishers Weekly. •