"Economics once determined demography, now demography is determining economics. So to understand properly the huge implications of fertility collapse on our economies, we need demographers and economists to collaborate. Such a sparkling collaboration is just what this important book provides." David Goodhart, author of The Road to Somewhere and The Care Dilemma " Bust is a bracing and important book. Morland and Pilkington sound a necessary alarm: population decline is the defining crisis of our era - and that the only real answer is to rebuild economic and cultural life around the family as society's foundational unit." Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia "Few people understand the stark consequences of falling global fertility; fewer still understand what is driving this trend. In Bust , Paul Morland and Philip Pilkington explore what factors drive fertility rates - both now and in the past - and what practical steps we can take to encourage more births before it is too late. Bust is an important contribution to the 'birth rate' debate and it should be read by politicians and policymakers who urgently need to understand how demographic decline is driving economic decline and not the other way around.

" Miriam Cates, former Conservative MP and journalist.