Longman, Phillip.

The empty cradle : how falling birthrates threaten world prosperity and what to do about it / Phillip Longman. - New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2004. - xv, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index. "A New American Book"

The fundamentalist moment -- Coffins and cradles -- America's vanishing labor supply -- The new human environment -- People power -- Fading nations -- The cost of children -- The cost of aging -- The slowing pace of progress -- Home economics -- Freedom and fertility -- Work and families.

0465050506 (alk. paper)

2003023840


Demographic transition.
Age distribution (Demography)
Population.
Fertility, Human.
Economic development.
Demographic transition--United States.
Demographic transition--Developed countries.
Demographic transition--Developing countries.

HB887 / .L66 2004

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