Marta Dassù e Lucia Annunziata editorial 5Luca Einaudi DEMOGRAPHY WATCH 13

How many of us are there? Aging and population

Idea Population: how much do numbers count?Massimo Livi Bacci Fragile number theorem 30Joel E. Cohen How many people can the planet hold? 40Carlo Stagnaro The ultimate resource. 47

Simul stabunt, simul cadentAdair Turner The economics of demographics 56Carlo Jean Demography and War 72Interview with Michel Godet Willful blindness 82Maurizio Ferrera The short century of the welfare state: 91

getting out of the “trap”

Scenario The old and the youngAntonio Golini The ages of populations 102Sergio Della Pergola Israel and Palestine: 112

demographics as identityDaniel H. Rosen and Getting China’s demographics right 121Thilo HanemannSergio A. Rossi The Russian paradox 129Gérard-François Dumont Europe’s winter 138Brahma Chellaney Asia’s Great Game 145

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Forum GX: the power of groupsJohn Kirton Coexistence, cooperation, 156

competition: G SummitsDominique Strauss Kahn Problem shooting 163Ludovica Rizzotti The Fund is back 169Paolo Raimondi and International trade emergency 176Mario Lettieri Gwyn Prins Earthquakes happen 178Nathan Gardels interviews Population growth requires 186Norman Borlaug second green revolutionJoachim von Braun Food security 188

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