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This text challenges the current trend of blaming social problems on expanding populations. The author argues that problems attributed to demographic trends are actually rooted in political and ethical situations.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Population Problems in the United States
1. Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages:
The New Challenges to Social Policy in America 13
2. Why Babies Die in D.C. 33
3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist 51
Part II: Population Problems Under Communism
4. Mortality and the Fate of Communist States 77
5. The Soviet Way of Death 107
6. Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe:
Retrospect and Prospect 119
7. Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993 153
Part III: Global Population Problems
8. Justifying Population Control: The Latest Arguments 175
9. Starved for Ideas: Misconceptions that Hinder
the Battle Against World Hunger 187
10. Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015:
Trends and Implications 201
11. What If It’s a World Population Implosion?
Speculations about Global De-Population 239
Index
About the author
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a senior adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. His previous works on Korean affairs include The Population of North Korea(co-author), Korea Approaches Reunification, A New International Engagement Framework for North Korea?, Korea's Future and the Great Powers (co-editor), and The End of North Korea.
Summary
In current intellectual and public discourse, the entire modern world-from the affluent United States to the poorest low-income regions-is beset today by a broad and alarming array of "population problems."
