5/13/2023 0 Comments 1 billion americans bookThe author sees no problem with tripling the American population-since, according to him, we’re currently “extremely undercrowded” and “many American cities and increasingly their suburbs are clearly underpopulated”-as long as all of that people power keeps us in the top spot of global economic powers. And since China has over a billion people, we need a billion people too. The premise of the book is that in order to hold onto the title of world’s biggest superpower (USA! USA! USA!), we need to compete in population size with China. Reading Matthew Yglesias’ new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger might lead you to believe that we live in such a world. What a simpler world this would be if old school economics were our only concern-if we didn’t need to worry about natural resource availability or the earth’s capacity to absorb our various forms of waste. Tripling the American Population to Compete With China Is Not Thinking Bigger, It’s Thinking Dumber.
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