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Nicholas Eberstadt: Can America survive population decline?

OCT 22, 202632 MIN

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Is the United States heading toward an unprecedented era of population decline? In this episode of "Make It Make Sense," Damir Marusic sits down with Nicholas Eberstadt, the American Enterprise Institute's Henry Wendt chair in political economy, to discuss falling global fertility rates, why deaths could soon outpace births in the U.S. and what shrinking societies mean for economic abundance and human flourishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.