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Moderator:  Calla Wiemer (calla.wiemer@acaes.us)

PAST Briefing on The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

When:  29 April 2021, 11:00am-noon US EDT (GMT-4)

Speakers:  Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan, Authors, The Great Demographic Reversal 

Sponsor: Global Interdependence Center

Registration:  here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others.

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