The Tragedy of Socialized Fertility

In centrally planned economies, administration does not confine itself to markets; it reaches into the most intimate aspects of life. When provisioning is socialized, fertility ceases to be private, and population becomes a variable to forecast and regulate. Reproductive incentives are altered, strategies are reshaped, and the fitness landscape is rewritten by policy constraints rather than natural scarcity. To analyze reproductive behavior, we begin with a framework I previously developed that integrates game theory, evolutionary biology, and praxeology. Across the animal kingdom, Parental