Böcker av Nicholas Eberstadt

In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy-to-read, four-color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, everything from Medicare to disability payments.  But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic. He powerfully argues that while this spending certainly drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens.

The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast Asia and will catalyze the struggle over a new regional order among the four great powers of the PacificRussia, China, Japan, and the United States. Koreas Future and the Great Powers addresses the vital issues of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea, how to finance Korean economic reconstruction, and how to link Korea into a cooperative framework of international diplomatic relations.

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in incomenot poverty per seis bad for people's health.

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

Eberstadt shows that Korean unification is drawing closer, but not on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's terms. As the economic base beneath the North Korean state falters and the prospect of failure draws closer the incentives toward corruption increase. The author looks at steps that can be taken to raise the chance of a benign outcome.

Examines Europe's demographic challenges, the curious phenomenon of the underworked European, and policies that stand in the way of the region benefiting from its health advantage.

This work presents a detailed picture of the divergent socio-economic trends in divided Korea since its 1945 partition. It also covers the social and political situation in the North and South today, and the domestic and international challenges to a successful Korean reunification.

In current intellectual and public discourse, the entire modern world-from the affluent United States to the poorest low-income regions-is beset today by a broad and alarming array of "population problems

Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational

This text challenges the current trend of blaming social problems on expanding populations. The author argues that problems attributed to demographic trends are actually rooted in political and ethical situations.

One third of the world's population today lives under governments that consider themselves to be Marxist-Leninist