Shrinking-population Economics
Author: Akihiko Matsutani
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In this book, the author offers a refreshingly informed and far-reaching account of the economic and social implications of the demographic change under way in Japan. The author also demonstrates convincingly that demographic trends will occasion socioeconomic change even more sweeping than most pundits have predicted. The author exposes the futility of widely proposed measures for forestalling population and economic shrinkage, such as encouraging larger families and encouraging an influx of foreign workers, He urges Japanese, instead, to learn to live with a smaller, older population. Most strikingly, he argues persuasively that population shrinkage and aging promise to redress the great tragedy of Japan's postwar economic surge: the failure of economic growth to deliver commensurate improvement in the quality of life." -- BOOK JACKET.