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The economist Charles Goodhart has been beating this drum for a couple of decades and more. The great thing about demographics is it's about the only area in w
by tuatoru 3y ago
The economist Charles Goodhart has been beating this drum for a couple of decades and more.
The great thing about demographics is it's about the only area in which we can make predictions about the (near) future with any degree of precision (or accuracy).
However pointing out these looming problems and advocating family-friendly and child-bearing-friendly polices just got Goodhart labeled as a right-wing anti-gay nutjob back in the '00s and '10s.
1. Goodhart has finally (2020) written a book after decades of writing pieces on Project Syndicate and VoxEU: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Demographic-Reversal-Societies-Inequality/dp/3030426564 https://www.amazon.com/Great-Demographic-Reversal-Societies-...