However, his discussion perpetuates the vacillation about the economic costs and benefits of population growth, by citing the so-called "economies and diseconomies of scale".
Free market ideologues fail to understand that there are diseconomies associated with replacing a government monopoly with multiple suppliers who waste money marketing their services.
They would observe that the successful firms would take advantage of economies of scale, but would also be careful not to incur diseconomies of scale in the long-run.
The diseconomies of agglomeration are all too familiar, such as time lost to traffic congestion, health and environmental costs owing to air and water pollution, flooding and traffic accidents.
The governance of aid presents itself as complex, bureaucratized and fragmented, with evident diseconomies of numbers and coordination, which have meant an increase in transaction costs.