The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

PARTICIPANTS

Chad Jones, John Taylor, Joshua Aizenman, Jonathan Berk, Michael Bernstam, Steven Blitz, Martin Blomhoff Holm, Valentin Bolotnyy, Michael Bordo, Michael Boskin, Daniele Caratelli, Jimmy Chang, John Cochrane, Tom Church, Thomas Cooley, Chris Dauer, Steven Davis, Katrina Dudley, David Fedor, Andrew Filardo, Jared Franz, Tyler Goodspeed, Paul Gregory, Robert Hall, Rick Hanushek, Adele Hayutin, Robert Hall, Daniel Heil, Gregory Hess, Doug Irwin, Tim Kane, Robert King, Pete Klenow, Kevin Kliesen, Jeff Lacker, Dennis Lockhart, Lilia Maliar, Michael Melvin, Axel Merk, Kris Mitchener, Koji Nakamura, Gisle Natvik, Stavros Panageas, David Papell, Elena Pastorino, Ned Prescott, John Raisian, Allison Schrager, Pierre Siklos, Mark Steinmeyer, Christine Strong, George Tavlas, Carl Walsh, Kevin Warsh, Ludger Woessmann, Mark Wynne

ISSUES DISCUSSED

Chad Jones, the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, discussed his paper “The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population.” John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

To read Chad Jones paper, The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population, click here
To read the slides, click here


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Video: Economic Policy Working Group, March 3rd, 2021, 12 pm PT

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