Mr Connelly starts with the 19th-century campaigners who published illegal manuals on birth control.

ECONOMIST: Population control

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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.

ECONOMIST: Population control

Mr Connelly's story is a global one, partly because so many of the groups seeking to influence the reproduction of others were transnational, but also because often it was those in one country who wished those in another to have fewer children.

ECONOMIST: Population control