The empty cradle : how falling birthrates threaten world prosperity and what to do about it / Phillip Longman.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Longman, Phillip
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books : New America Books, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Demographic transition.
Age distribution (Demography)
Population.
Fertility, Human.
Economic development.
Demographic transition > United States.
Demographic transition > Developed countries.
Demographic transition > Developing countries.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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 family.