In your first book, you look at the role that population has played in human history. You see a general rise in population as technology improves and people's ability to create food improves. But then what happens around the time that malthus was writing is we started the demographic transition. And it started in britain and in northwest europe, and then it spread globally. That really is the story of the human tide.
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.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices