The fiscal system depends on continuous population growth; as population declines, pension and debt obligations become unsustainable without either massive immigration or radical restructuring.

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Speaker

Luigi Zingales

Evidence Quote

the fiscal component because we have set up a pension system and we set up a level of debt that is really dependent on some continuous growth in the population at least not a rapid decline in the population and as the population is declining then we're forced to do maybe massive immigration

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall FergusonStigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:34:44 AM

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