Do We Need Numbers? The Demographic Fingerprint on Crisis Evidence

Abstract

The economic revolution that took place in the world through globalization and the Industrial Revolution made a deep and lasting impression that continues to haunt current visions of the future, leaving aside the importance of understanding demographic dynamics. The tendency towards a purely economic “reading” of contemporary reality pays scant regard to the demographic conditions of its production. Put simply, if we are to understand the contemporary crisis and if we desire for our current system to survive we should focus on a reconciliation of demography within the analysis of the actual functioning society.