Fatal Misconception

The Struggle to Control World Population

Matthew Connelly

  • A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2008
  • An Economist Book of the Year in Science and Technology
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: How Biology Became History
  1. Populations Out of Control
  2. To Inherit the Earth
  3. Populations at War
  4. Birth of the Third World
  5. The Population Establishment
  6. Controlling Nations
  7. Beyond Family Planning
  8. A System without a Brain
  9. Reproducing Rights, Reproducing Health
  • Conclusion: The Threat of the Future
  • Notes
  • Archives and Interviews
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Fatal Misconception
  • A photo of the author

Matthew Connelly is Professor of History, Columbia University.