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Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme

  • Written by: Emily Klancher Merchant, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis
Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi schemeJapan is pushing for more pedestrians.AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates.

Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted so-called “pronatalist” measures in the belief that doing so will defuse a...

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