Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America

Many Americans regard the massive influx of immigrants over the past 30 years with great anxiety, fearing new burdens and unwanted changes to the nation's ethnic, social, and economic identity. Virtually unnoticed in the contentious national debate over immigration is the even more significant demographic change about to occur as the first wave of the Baby Boom generation retires, slowly draining the workforce and straining the federal budget to the breaking point. In this forward-l


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Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves Reviews

Alan Greenspan:
"Creative destruction is an idea that was articulated by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. ... I read Schumpeter in my twenties and always thought he was right ..." - The Age of Turbulence Joseph Schumpeter wrote about Nikolai Kondratieff's long-waves in his book Business Cycles. Schumpeter's "gale of creative destruction" was inspired by Kondratieff's long-waves. Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles provides the latest and most comprehensive findings on


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Baby-boomers, Generation-X and social cycles

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Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves (Canadian English Edition) Reviews

Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves, begins by examining the population of the United States and Canada from 1789 to the present and shows that at intervals, there have been baby booms other than the most recent one. Following each baby boom was baby bust, which in our time has been labeled as Generation X. The baby boom generation of the early 1900's discovered Jazz. The young reveled in the new music while the establishment frowned upon what it tho


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