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This is an unmissable and timely collection of essays addressing such hot-button issues as climate change, planned parenthood, population control, famine, poverty, international aid programs and many more, where AEI scholar Nick Eberstadt dives into the evidence, amassing the raw data with which the idealogues and the "experts" can be silenced once and for all, leaving us to reconsider what we may think we know about the past, present, and future of humanity.
The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much more than that: They present a matchless course of instruction in the demographics of poverty and prosperity, hardship and health, and progress and decline, and they paint a vivid, pointillist portrait of the circumstances of modern humanity. Nick Eberstadt, armed only with data and patient study, debunks Al Gore, Jared Diamond, and Planned Parenthood on population growth and population control; then demolishes a phalanx of ideologues on world hunger and famine; then shreds Jeffrey Sachs and UN officialdom on economic growth and international aid programs. And then he dares all of us to confront humanitarian catastrophes that many prefer to ignore, such as enforced immiserization in North Korea and the now-extensive global practice of selective abortion of females.
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Christopher DeMuth
I. Population and Policy
1. “Population Change and National Security,” Foreign Affairs,Summer 1991
2. “Too Many People?,” International Policy Network, July 11, 2007
3. “The Demographic Future,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010
4. “The Human Population Unbound,” Current History, January 2014
II. The Politics of Hunger
5. “Hunger and Ideology,” Commentary, July 1981
6. “Famine, Development, and Foreign Aid,” Commentary, March 1985
7. “Starved for Ideas,” World Food Summit in Rome, November 15, 1996
III. Demographic Destinies
8. “Mortality and the Fate of Communist States,” Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, 2000
9. “Growing Old the Hard Way: China, Russia, India,” Policy Review, May 2006
10. “Hastening Korean Reunification,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 1997
IV. Human Imperatives
11. “The Global Poverty Paradox,” Commentary, October 2010
12. “Haiti in Extremis,” The Weekly Standard, October 9, 2006
13. “The Global War Against Baby Girls,” The New Atlantis, January 12, 2012
14. “Bring Them Home,” The Weekly Standard, June 6, 2005
V. O My America
15. “America’s Infant Mortality Puzzle,” The Public Interest, Fall 1991
16. “The Mismeasure of Poverty,” Policy Review, August/September 2006
17. “Demographic Exceptionalism in the United States: Tendencies
and Implications,” Agir, 2007
18. “American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State,” National Affairs, January 5, 2015
Afterword by Arthur C. Brooks
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author