How dependent is the economy on a stable, or growing world population? If the population plateaus, can the economy sustain? And if the population drops steadily? Or sharply?
I hear rumors about the baby boomer crisis and how the USA's economy is struggling partly because we don't have a young workforce to replace the old.
Is it fair to say that the modern economic structure was born during the drastic population ramp of the 1900's? Would that imply that it may require that ramp to function?
What would happen to the global economy with an effective world-wide single child policy, with each new generation half the size of the previous?