FEWER: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future - Softcover

An engagingly argued look at what happens when we get what we wish for, and Wattenberg is the thinker to write it. * Detroit Free Press * A remarkable book...in terms of its importance for our country and the world. -- Newt Gingrich * The Washington Times * One of the more interesting books of 2004. -- Thomas Bray * Detroit News * He has done his homework...in a breezy and provocative style while providing the data to support his concern. -- Marshall Fishwick, author of Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace * The Roanoke Times * Fewer is an extremely informative and provocative book. -- Howard Upton * Tulsa World * This book is the foundation for long-term global econometric and political thinking. * First Principles U.S. * Fewer provides valuable food for thought. -- Tom Baker * Daily Yomiuri * Nimble narrative of demographic data. -- Martha Farnsworth Riche * World Watch * Lucidly show[s] how the once-feared population explosion is giving way to a birth dearth. -- Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World News Group * WORLD * This thought-provoking book addresses an important issue and is presented in nontechnical language accessible to a wide spectrum of readers. Highly recommended. -- W. C. Struning * CHOICE * It is important that good minds pay close attention to these changes. This book is a very helpful contribution to that effort. -- Bill Muehlenberg * News Weekly * [He has] gathered the data and usefully corrected widespread and longstanding misrepresentations. -- Eric Cohen, Ethics and Public Policy Center Keeping his statistics comprehensible to the demographic novice, he...skillfully analyzes the economic and social situations that might occur. * Publishers Weekly * Ben Wattenberg has again brought a vital issue to the public policy debate. -- Joseph Chamie, Director, Population Division, DESA, United Nations This fascinating book tells us more than anything yet about why we are Fewer.... I strongly recommend it. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and member of Reagan's Cabinet There is no better analyst to guide us through the complex political, social, and economic implications of this development than Ben Wattenberg. -- Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man Scholarly, readable and compelling. -- Joseph Lieberman, Senator

Never before have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, in so many places, so surprisingly. In Fewer, Ben Wattenberg shows how and why this has occurred, and explains what it means for the future. These stark demographic changes will affect commerce, the environment, public financing, and geo-politics. In Wattenberg's world of The New Demography readers get a look at a topic often chattered about, but rarely understood.