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Australia's Economic and Population Capacity

Australia's Economic and Population Capacity students a much clearer grasp of the present state o knowledge on a subject, f and the prospects o further development of knowledge, by opening their course f with a historical review o the process by which present scientific ideas and f knowledge were built up, rather than by giving them the current conclusions of scientists as a mere fait accompli. How much more desirable therefore is this procedure in studying the problems of economics and politics, where the information is so much less certain. Earlier ideas on the subject of Australia’s population capacity seem to have been-shall we put it politely-highly empirical, even by the standards prevailing in Australian political discussion. The geographers had discovered that Australia had approximately the same land area as the United States. Very well then; Australia would eventually carry a population of 100 million, the same as the United States. This was in the days when 100 milLon, a convenient round figure, was the population of the United States, soon after the turn of the century. As the population o the United States went on leaping upwards, by 10 or 20 per f cent. each decade, there was, it is true, some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1955 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8497.1955.tb00984.x
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students a much clearer grasp of the present state o knowledge on a subject, f and the prospects o further development of knowledge, by opening their course f with a historical review o the process by which present scientific ideas and f knowledge were built up, rather than by giving them the current conclusions of scientists as a mere fait accompli. How much more desirable therefore is this procedure in studying the problems of economics and politics, where the information is so much less certain. Earlier ideas on the subject of Australia’s population capacity seem to have been-shall we put it politely-highly empirical, even by the standards prevailing in Australian political discussion. The geographers had discovered that Australia had approximately the same land area as the United States. Very well then; Australia would eventually carry a population of 100 million, the same as the United States. This was in the days when 100 milLon, a convenient round figure, was the population of the United States, soon after the turn of the century. As the population o the United States went on leaping upwards, by 10 or 20 per f cent. each decade, there was, it is true, some

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Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 1955

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