The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies Waning Inequality and an Inflation Revival

About this book

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends it will raise inflation and interest rates but lead to a pullback in inequality. Whatever the future holds the authors argue it will be nothing like the past. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the worlds available labour supply owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the worlds trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour so that inequality falls. Covering many social and politicalfactors as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic the authors address topics including ageing dementia inequality populism retirement and debt finance among others. This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the worlds economy may be going.