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“It had the best opening sentence of any nonfiction book I read this year: ‘In 2012, 146 million children were born. That was more than in any prior year. It was also more than in any year since. Millions fewer will be born this year. The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists.’ Such a simple and obvious fact but I had not known it before. I had to keep reading. For most of modern history, population growth was a background constant; now we may be entering an era of sustained population decline.” Read more...
The Best Economics Books of 2025
Jason Furman, Economist
Our most recommended books
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis -
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman -
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S Landes -
This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner -
The Passions and the Interests
by Albert Hirschman
