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Family Economy
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Causes and Cures of "Demographic Winter"
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
The new film Demographic Winter performs a national service by outlining the biggest social, economic and strategic challenge that the United States will face in coming decades. However, it also makes the problem seem overly complex and ends without offering hope of solutions. I’d like to share with you a simpler and somewhat more hopeful analysis.  [Read More]
Family-Friendly Fiscal Policy to Weather "Demographic Winter"
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2007
While the birth rate has fallen below the replacement rate in most of developed Europe and Asia it has hovered near the replacement rate in the United States. In order to avoid a "demographic winter" fiscal policy must be reformed to become more family-friendly.  [Read More]
The Barren Gamble of Same-Sex Unions
The Downside of Diluting Marriage Statutes
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2001
Few states are expected to follow the lead of Vermont and enact "civil unions" or domestic partnership legislation. Yet if faced with demands to be like the Green Mountain State, lawmakers in other states would be wise to commission economic impact statements to assess the potential fiscal and economic fallout. Judging from the economic legacy of the Supreme Court decision a generation ago that forced every state in the union to liberalize their respective abortion laws, changes in state social policy and especially marriage law are never economically neutral. In fact, reducing the legal status of marriage to anything other than a union between one man and one woman will actually work against the economic vitality of a state.  [Read More]
The Stork Theory of Economics
Why Economists want Moms on the Payroll
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Monday, January 15, 2001
Many economists tend to look favorably on the movement of mothers out of the home and into the labor market during the last thirty years. The reasons for their position are varied, but at the core they reflect a fundamental clash of worldviews, one that might loosely be described as libertarian and the other as traditional. This combination of libertarian philosophy and antiquated economic analysis—which explains the lack of support for moms-at-home by many economists—might aptly be termed the "stork theory" of economics.  [Read More]
Abortion is a Cause of Crime, Not a Cure
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
The claim that legal abortions in the 1970s explain part of the fall in the crime rate during the 1990s is based on what appears at first blush to be a scientific study. Yet a closer look at the data on both abortion and crime contradicts those conclusions. In fact, legal abortion has exacerbated, not ameliorated, a bad socioeconomic environment.  [Read More]
How Abortion Has Weakened Social Security
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
The Social Security crisis is considerably more severe because of abortion.   [Read More]
The Socioeconomic Costs of Roe v. Wade
How America would be Stronger if Abortion Remained Illegal
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
After nearly thirty years, the data suggest that abortion has been anything but good for the United States. By reducing the size of the population, abortion has correspondingly reduced the size of the economy; over time, it will undercut one main cause of the American economy's current dynamism: innovation. By contributing to a sharp drop in the net marriage rate, legalized abortion has already reduced the standard of living of the average American household. Legalized abortion is also single-handedly responsible for anticipated imbalances in the Social Security retirement system (see sidebar, back cover). Taken in its entirety, legal abortion is perhaps the single largest American economic event of the past century, more significant than the Great Depression or the Second World War.  [Read More]
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EPPC on Book TV
Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.   


Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

 Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

 How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.