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''The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity (And What To Do About It)'' is a 2004 book by
Phillip Longman Phillip Longman (born April 21, 1956, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a conservative American demographer. Presently he is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and he formerly worked as a senior writer and depu ...
of the
New America Foundation New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a think tank in the United States founded in 1999. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, educa ...
about declining birthrates around the world, the challenges that Longman believes will accompany it, and strategies to overcome those challenges.


Reception


Media appearances and interviews

Longman appeared in a
National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n ...
program ''Talk of the Nation'' debating
Peter Kostmayer Peter Houston Kostmayer (born September 27, 1946) is a Democratic politician who served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Early life and career Kostmayer was born in New York City, graduated fr ...
about the thesis of his book.


Reviews

Richard N. Cooper Richard Newell Cooper (June 14, 1934 – December 23, 2020) was an American economist, policy adviser, and academic. Born in Seattle, Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London Sch ...
reviewed the book briefly for ''
Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...
'', writing that Longman's concern about falling birthrates is at odds with many people's concerns about overpopulation, and also noting that Longman believed that specific government policies were responsible for the lower birthrates. Spengler reviewed the book for
Asia Times ''Asia Times'' (), formerly known as ''Asia Times Online'', is a Hong Kong-based English language news media publishing group, covering politics, economics, business, and culture from an Asian perspective. ''Asia Times'' publishes in English and ...
, concluding "The reader must fall back on his argument that faith, not pecuniary calculation, will motivate today's prospective parents. The reproductive power of an increasingly Christian United States will enhance the strategic position of the US over the next two generations, leaving infertile Western Europe to sink slowly into insignificance."
Albert Mohler Richard Albert Mohler Jr. (born October 19, 1959) is an American evangelical theologian, the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and host of the podcast ''The Briefing'', where he daily analyzes ...
, president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at ...
, reviewed the book on his personal website. He concluded: "His research is certain to spark fierce debate and spirited discussion. In the final analysis, doesn’t it make sense that those who see children as gifts from God would have more children than those who see children as economic cost units? How could anyone be surprised?" Bill Muehlenberg reviewed the book on his own blog.


See also

* ''
What to Expect When No One's Expecting ''What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster'' is a book by the ''Weekly Standard'' columnist Jonathan V. Last about declining birthrates in the United States and elsewhere around the world and the implications f ...
'' by
Jonathan V. Last Jonathan V. Last (aka JVL; born May 6, 1974) is an American journalist and author. He is the editor of '' The Bulwark'', and previously worked as a senior writer and digital editor at ''The Weekly Standard.'' He is the author of ''What to Expect ...


References

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