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by Alejandro Macarron Larumbe (Author)
This book deals with one of the most dangerous social patterns of our time: the insufficient birth rate in Western countries and many others, the consequences of having so few children, and the causes and possible solutions. With fewer babies every year, to warn that society is on the way to extinction is not an unfounded, over-frightening prophecy. It is simple math, of the kind a ten-year-old child can handle.
And before disappearing, an infertile society is bound for population loss, increased aging, economic and affective impoverishment, a replacement of genuine democracy by gerontocracy, and a loss of relevance in the international/geopolitical arena.
(HANS-WERNER SINN - Economist. Professor emeritus of Munich University and ex-president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research) "AN EXTRAORDINARY AND VERY VALUABLE BOOK. Exciting to read, with quotes boosting its arguments"
(JUAN VELARDE - Economist, Prince of Asturias Award of Social Science, President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) "MACARRÓN'S BOOK IS ESSENTIAL for anyone who wants to approach-with rigor and seriousness, data, figures, and grounded opinions-the brutal problem of what clearly defines the title of this book: our demographic suicide"
(JOSEP PIQUÉ - Economist, ex-minister of Industry and Energy, Science and Technology, Foreign Affairs and spokesman of the Spanish government, and businessman) "THIS BOOK INTENDS NOT TO FRIGHTEN, BUT TO WARN, and that warning is pertinent and it would suit anyone to know it"
(JOAQUÍN LEGUINA - Economist, demographer, ex-president of Madrid-region and writer)
Number of Pages: 310
Dimensions: 0.65 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN
Publication Date: October 24, 2017
