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Having children was always implicitly an economic decision in the past because people needed children to work, but the difference in the current generation is that economic thinking about reproduction is now explicit rather than implicit

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Speaker

Bethany McLean

Evidence Quote

“wasn't part of having children always implicitly an economic decision a long time ago people wanted to have children because they needed children to go work and so hasn't economics always been part of the backdrop”

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson— Stigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:18:48 AM

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