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Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time.

Drawn from what Dietrich Vollrath said

Subjectdemographics
What this subject means

demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.

What Dietrich Vollrath actually said

  1. Dietrich Vollrath Growth economist at the University of Houston and author of Fully Grown
    It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.

    Where this was said

    ↗Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia"growthecon.com

    11 Oct 2022

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