Longman, Phillip,

The empty cradle : how falling birthrates threaten world prosperity and what to do about it / [print] Phillip Longman. - New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, (c)2004. - xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

"A New American Book"



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



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

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