Jul

23

Mara Hvistendahl , the author of "Unnatural Selection" was on TV a week or so ago and suggested male-female ratio imbalances will cause some Asian countries to become like the American "Wild West" and more war-like and aggressive in nature in the future. Interesting (if not flawed) idea with possible market implications (at least until equilibrium is re-established).

It sounded a bit Malthusian though too…

from an article on npr:

As men find it more difficult to find wives in these countries, Hvistendahl says, "it is leading to unrest and almost certainly will lead to more." Unmarried men are responsible for more violent crime than married men. And, Hvistendahl adds, research in eastern China showed a correlation between a high male-to-female sex ratio and the crime rate.

Don Boudreaux adds:


In light of the fact that the most creative and versatile resource (by far) is the human mind, world population today truly is not too great but, rather, too small. Far too small.


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