Desperate Immigrarion Measures to Boost GDP

The rich world is in the midst of an unprecedented migration boom. Last year 3.3m more people moved to America than left, almost four times typical levels in the 2010s. Canada took in 1.9m immigrants. Britain welcomed 1.2m people and Australia 740,000. In each country the number was greater than ever before. For Australia and …

Korea’s Economy & Population Decline

When researching degrowth, I find that nobody ever advocates for or predicts actual degrowth. They end up discussing no-growth, which of course is impossible to keep at precisely not going up or down. So sometimes instead of degrowth they advocate for very low growth, below 1%. But actual economic degrowth is too hard to discuss …

How Much Decline = Permanent Recession?

One of the reasons this website exists is that the detrimental effects of population decline on capitalism haven’t been acknowledged yet. While it has long been known that increasing the population is good for the economy, it is rare for someone to put a value on it. Recently the WSJ reported: Historically, nearly half of …