It has become fashionable to issue dire projections of declining prosperity based on demographic aging. But is that really such a problem?
A version of this article appeared in the January–February 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.
The Truth About Aging Populations
It has become fashionable to issue dire projections of declining prosperity based on demographic aging. But is that really such a problem? There is no doubt that all the countries of the world are getting older, but they are at very different stages of the process. The median age in the United States—with half the […]