The fiscal challenges that Japan’s shrinking population has created come from a shrinking birth rate and an aging population.
Weekly Roundup: From Playing Monopoly to Flying Drones
Our everyday economics includes BRICs & MINTs, supply, monopoly, tradeoffs, economic consensus, innovation, property rights, redistribution, fertility rate.
Part 2: What To Do When More People Are Old
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.