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Ameri-Can or Can’t?: China’s Looming Demographic and Economic Collapse

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Is Population a Big Problem?

i disagree wth just about everything you said. Is population a huge problem? But i don't think it is. What matters fundamentally to human welfare is g p per capita, income per capita, productivity a not the total number of people you have. China has china s stuck in its middle income trap. What it needs is smart workers. We simply have made promises that we can't keep.

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