5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
French demographer and historian who predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in 1976 (La Chute finale) based on infant mortality data — and who developed a theory that family structures (nuclear family, stem family, communal family) determine political ideologies — explaining why communism took hold in Russia and China but not in England.
American demographer and policy researcher whose work on fertility rates, religious demography, and family policy has made him a key voice in the discourse on declining birth rates and the conditions that support family formation.
American demographer at American Enterprise Institute — author of A Nation of Takers and Men Without Work — the leading analyst of American workforce decline and North Korean demography — descendant of Nicholas Murray Butler.
British demographer and filmmaker who produced the Birthgap documentary series documenting the global fertility decline — arguing that demographic collapse represents civilization's most serious long-term crisis.
Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist whose 'Essay on the Principle of Population' (1798) argued that population growth inevitably outstrips food supply, leading to famine, disease, or war as natural checks.