Demography is the study of groups of people, what they do and how they act. It draws from other fields such as anthropology, sociology, history and economics to produce nuanced analysis of how we live. We'll be collecting your questions throughout it, and we will address those and more in the c and a.
Does the world have too many people – or not enough? That’s one of the big questions that demographer Paul Morland seeks to answer in his new book, Tomorrow’s People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers. Demography is the study of groups of people and how they behave, drawing from adjacent fields such as anthropology, sociology, history and economics. For this discussion focusing on political demography, Paul is joined in conversation by our host, Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College in London.
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