2025-03-24
55 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings,
where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,
present and future.
I am your host, David Beckwourth,
a senior research fellow at the Merketta center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Lyman Stone.
Lyman is a demographer and is the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at Institute for Family Studies.
He's also affiliated scholar at a number of other institutions,
including the American Enterprise Institute.
Lyman joins us today to talk about the demographic decline,
its economic implications and prospects for pronatalism policy.
Lyman, welcome to the program.
It's really good to be with you.
It's good to have you on and I have chatted with you for a number of years.
So in some sense this is long overdue because this is a topic I do care about.
On Macro musings, we often focus on the business cycle,
what the Federal Reserve is doing, what fiscal policy is doing.
But what's really important is the long run trajectory of economic growth.
And a key part of that is demographics, population growth,