Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist and a demographer by training, holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at American Enterprise Institute. He is also a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research, a commissioner on the US Key National Indicators Council, and a member of the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum. He researches and writes extensively on economic development, foreign aid, global health, demographics, and poverty. In 2012, he wrote A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic (Templeton Press) and won the Bradley Prize.
"Nicholas Eberstadt has become one of our highest-impact
socioeconomic and demographic analysts, rivaling his American
Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray. In Men without Work,
he alerts us to a new 'invisible national crisis.' . . . Eberstadt
is thus pointing to a fatal flaw--a sexual suicide in an American
polity where women outvote men and prefer socialism and stasis over
progress and prosperity, where they choose dependency on government
over collaboration with husbands and family." --George Gilder,
National Review"Nicholas Eberstadt has become one of our
highest-impact socioeconomic and demographic analysts, rivaling his
American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray. In Men
without Work, he alerts us to a new 'invisible national crisis.'"
"[A]n unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also
of lives deeply alienated from civil society." --Susan Chira, New
York Times "The work rate for adult men has plunged 13 percentage
points in a half-century. This 'work deficit' of 'Great
Depression-scale underutilization' of male potential workers is the
subject of Nicholas Eberstadt's new monograph Men Without Work:
America's Invisible Crisis, which explores the economic and moral
causes and consequences of this." --George F. Will, Washington Post
"Eberstadt has put his finger on what may be the most important
socioeconomic question the U.S. will face over the next
quarter-century." --Lawrence Summers, Financial Times "Nicholas
Eberstadt of the center-right American Enterprise Institute
released a book, Men Without Work, earlier this year has helped
spark many man-centric conversations about labor force
participation. Eberstadt argues that if you ignore differences in
retirement age, American men are now less likely to work than
European men, and that male labor force participation has been
declining for a few generations now. This is all true." --Matthew
Yglesias, Vox "Non-marriage and non-work are locked in a downward
spiral. Eberstadt's book is a fire bell." --Mona Charen, National
Review"Eberstadt is right that this is 'America's invisible crisis'
an enormous problem that is rarely discussed and will not go away
on its own. Eberstadt has done more than anyone else to raise
awareness of the issue and to sketch its contours." -- Robert
VerBruggen, Washington Free Beacon"Eberstadt's Men Without Work is
the social-science ballast to the powerful impressionistic account
offered in J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy, the book of
the year. . . . Eberstadt puts statistical meat on Vance's
rhetorical bones. His subject isn't the unemployed but the
not-employed, not men looking for work but men who have stopped
looking for work. Those looking for work are counted as part of the
labor force. . . . The crisis of the un-working, so crushingly
depicted in Eberstadt's remorseless charts and facts, is a
spiritual disease that has been slowly building within the American
body politic and is beginning to rot us from within." --John
Podhoretz, New York Post "'America now is home to a vast army of
jobless men who are no longer even looking for work--roughly 7
million of them age 25 to 54, the traditional prime working life, '
Mr. Eberstadt writes... . These members of the 'Idle Army" are the
"detached men' of America, Eberstadt says. And their detachment,
and their numbers, are growing. No nation can survive such a
pandemic." --Pittsburgh Tribune
"[E]xtremely informative . . . the otherwise hidden part of
America's economic story." --Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week
"Eberstadt, who is highly respected on both sides of the political
spectrum for his rigorous use of data, notes a number of shocking
statistics that belie the current wisdom of a booming jobs market."
--Investor's Business Daily
"A longtime fellow of the conservative American Enterprise
Institute, Eberstadt is a respected scholar and writes in a
cautious and moderate tone. He often cites those who disagree with
him . . ." --Jeff Madrick, the New York Review of Books "It is
vital to reckon with the research of Nicholas Eberstadt, whose
forthcoming book documents the travails of the 7 million prime-age
men who have dropped out of the workforce." --Washington Post "Men
Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis is essential reading for
this election cycle." --The Globe and Mail "'America now is home to
a vast army of jobless men who are no longer even looking for work
-- roughly 7 million of them age 25 to 54, the traditional prime
working life, ' Mr. Eberstadt writes. . . .These members of the
'Idle Army' are the 'detached men' of America, Eberstadt says. And
their detachment, and their numbers, are growing. No nation can
survive such a pandemic." --Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"Too many Americans today are unemployed or lack the skills to
thrive in our modern economy. Many of these individuals rely on
welfare or disability payments instead of earned income. Nicholas
Eberstadt's Men Without Work reveals the depth of this problem, and
warns that the pattern of prime-age males fleeing work can no
longer safely be ignored." --David Bass, Philanthropy Magazine
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