The puzzle of the American economy: how changing demographics will affect our future and influence our politics
Acknowledgments -- Lessons from demography -- Introduction -- "The wonderful, terrible, inscrutable economy" -- Historical change, economic behavior, and demographics -- The demographic portrait -- Generation X and the effects of population change -- What this portrait tells us -- Implications for the economy -- Implications for government budgets -- Long-term growth in America -- What we can do -- In search of a new paradigm -- The new rules of the game for a new pathway -- Managing our fiscal commons -- No one is disposable -- Conclusion: interdependence -- Bibliography -- Index