Ask Art Woolf -- who has identified Vermont's looming demographic crisis -- what, if anything, Vermonters can to to avert disaster.
"Make more babies," he'll say.
Not the sort of thing you'd expect from someone trained in the "dismal science" and fluent in a language full of phrases like "marginal efficiency of capital" and "inelasticity of demand." That is not the stuff of Andrew Marvel or John Keats.
But, then, economics is actually "about" everything. The foundation of all economic analysis is the axiom that the pursuit self interest governs all human activity. We are all about maximization of satisfaction (or utility) and once you buy into that, it is a short hike over to increasing the population.
Consider this, for example.
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