Acknowledgments
Lessons from demography
Introduction
"The wonderful, terrible, inscrutable economy"
Historical change, economic behavior, and demographics
The demographic portrait
Generation X and the effects of population change
What this portrait tells us
Implications for the economy
Implications for government budgets
Long-term growth in America
What we can do
In search of a new paradigm
The new rules of the game for a new pathway
Managing our fiscal commons
No one is disposable
Conclusion: interdependence
Bibliography
Index.