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• W2925101893 abstract "One of the few contemporary writers on population issues who can be considered a public intellectual is Nicholas Eberstadt, longtime denizen of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The 18 of his essays collected here (we are signaled that further compilations may be coming) appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and The Public Interest—a readership he instructs on public policy aspects of the demographic transformations underway around the world, with admirable clarity and minimal recourse to demographic technicality. It is also, by and large, a readership trending conservative, conforming to the AEI's outlook. The earliest essay is from 1985, the most recent from 2015. The topics cover population and national security, the world's demographic future, famine and hunger, poverty rates, population aging in emerging economies, imbalances in sex-ratios at birth (“the global war against baby girls”), abysmal population health in the former Soviet bloc, and American demographic exceptionalism. There are two essays on North Korea, one on Haiti. Eberstadt has a refreshing skepticism toward accepted wisdom. McNamara-era World Bank estimates of hunger, and FAO figures from the 1950s on, finding large proportions of the world population to be calorie-deficient, are excoriated. So are poverty estimates in the US: the official poverty rate “fails—one is tempted to say that it fails spectacularly—to measure what it purports to be tracking over time.” In reality, according to Eberstadt, the data “demonstrate steady and basically uninterrupted improvement in the material conditions and consumption levels of Americans in the lowest income strata over the past four decades.” He is dubious about the growth impetus of the vaunted demographic dividend derived from falling dependency ratios: low savings rates are not a binding constraint where capital markets are global. More generally, he has little time for the UN's development goals or for foreign aid: development failures are traceable to “culture and governance.” The author's laissez faire policy stance mostly rejects government interference in demographic matters. (Sex-selective abortion—feticide, in his phrasing—might be an exception.) Thus, in ruling out various explanations for the US's relatively high infant mortality among OECD countries, he eventually concedes “the right to be a negligent parent.” Immigration is broadly welcomed, though historically subject to periodic “anti-immigrant paroxysms.” At the global level, action aimed at world population stabilization is scorned: its advocates—former US Vice President Al Gore is singled out, his environmental strictures barely mentioned—are “devotees to a doctrine, not followers of facts.” Greater human capital will ensure rising prosperity even with a much larger world population. A final essay, from 2015, on American exceptionalism, both acknowledges and regrets the advance of “the entitlement state” as a consequence of “collusive, bipartisan support,” notwithstanding “firm resistance by an honorable and principled few.” Index." @default.
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• W2925101893 title "NicholasEberstadtPopulation, Poverty, Policy: Essential Essays from Nicholas Eberstadt, Volume 1Washington DC: AEI Press, 2018. xviii + 373 p. $14.00 (pbk.)" @default.
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