Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
One hundred and seventy five years ago a shy young Fellow of Jesus College in this University asked a question which still remains just as relevant and just as urgent today. He asked, if I may paraphrase him in the language of today, whether economic development was possible, or whether it would be frustrated by the growth of population.
1 This is the text of Professor Robinson's Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture given in Cambridge on 6 March 1974.
2 See Kuznets, S., “The Gap: Concept, Measurement, Trends”, in Ranis, G. (ed.), The Gap between Rich and Poor Nations (London: Macmillan, 1972), pp. 40–1.Google Scholar