Birthquake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks. By Diane J. Macunovich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp xiii, 314. $37.50

Judith Woerner Mills

The Journal of Economic History, 2003, vol. 63, issue 1, 295-296

Abstract: Before I had even finished reading the first chapter of Diane Macunovich's new book, three things were crystal clear:People matter: a society's demographics need to be considered explicitly when trying to understand or to forecast its economic behavior.Einstein's conclusions about relativity apply to economies: changes in the relative size and age composition of a population can lead to major changes in its social and economic behavior.Economic demographers rule! From now on, users of long-term forecasting models will need to include information on changes in age structure and cohort size if they wish to forecast events more than a few years ahead.

Date: 2003
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