{"id":1679,"date":"2011-11-07T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2011-11-07T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T15:37:34","slug":"academia%e2%80%99s-role-in-china%e2%80%99s-population-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/academia%e2%80%99s-role-in-china%e2%80%99s-population-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia\u2019s Role in China\u2019s Population Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/110711_0045_AcademiasRo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch what you say; casual conversations have the potential to lead to enormous and incredible results, just ask Geert Jan Olsder. He was the man who wrote a paper called &#8220;Population Planning; a Distributed Time Optimal Control Problem&#8221; and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/11\/04\/the-academic-origins-of-chinas-one-child-policy\/\">Freakonomics<\/a>, might have played a role in inspiring one very influential man in China to push for the nation&#8217;s infamous One-Child-Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olsder met with Song Jian, a well educated fellow from China for some drinks<\/li>\n<li>They discuss the implications of population planning, without a second thought from Olsder<\/li>\n<li>Jian ultimately plays an instrumental role in developing China&#8217;s population control policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whether or not it was intended, Olsder looks to have served as a link in the story from theory of population control to actual, full-scale birth rate policy in China.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, check out the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/11\/04\/the-academic-origins-of-chinas-one-child-policy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch what you say; casual conversations have the potential to lead to enormous and incredible results, just ask Geert Jan Olsder. He was the man who wrote a paper called &#8220;Population Planning; a Distributed Time Optimal Control Problem&#8221; and according to Freakonomics, might have played a role in inspiring one very influential man in China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}