Dudley L. Poston's publishers teasingly call his latest book the Harry Potter of Demographics. One reviewer said it would become the new Bible of demographics. Both notions seem a stretch for the ...

We are in the midst of something of a baby boomlet of demography books. Fans of population science can read the recently published Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (2019) and ...

Economists seem to be everywhere; demographers, not so much. As Danny Dorling admits, when demographers like him are asked at parties what they do, sometimes it is easiest just to lie. Their ...

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World. By Paul Morland.PublicAffairs; 352 pages; $28. John Murray; £25. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. By Darrell Bricker and ...