In a report for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics argues that the housing crisis is a myth stemming from population overestimates in 2000.
Two hundred years ago one ofthe pioneers of modern economics, Thomas Malthus, was warning that population was growing faster than food production and the only remedy, if you are willing to accept a lot of dead people as a remedy, would be that population would eventually be held in check by famine.
People are fleeing the cold: there is a strong correlation between the average temperature in January and population growth, notes Edward Glaeser, a professor ofeconomics at Harvard University.