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Tables of Contents for Boom, Bust & Echo
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction Two-Thirds of Everything Demography, the study of human populations, is the most powerful tool for understanding the past and forecasting the future
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Chapter 1 Boomers and Other Cohorts Why your year of birth is one of the most important things about you.
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Chapter 2 The Real Estate Meltdown Why the real estate boom happened, why it ended, and what the future holds for homeowners and investors.
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Chapter 3 Demographic Investing How to identify the growth markets of the future.
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Chapter 4 Jobs and the Corporation How the demographic shift is transforming the corporation and the nature of work.
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Chapter 5 The Rules of Retail Why stores that offer quality and service will do better than stores that compete solely on a basis of price.
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Chapter 6 Tennis, Anyone? Which leisure activities will grow in popularity and which ones won't.
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Chapter 7 The Future of Cities How demographic change led to the growth of the suburbs, caused the decline of public transit, and altered Canada's crime rate.
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Chapter 8 Rethinking Education Why failure to adapt to demographic change inflated Canada's education costs, and how we can avoid repeating the same mistake.
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Chapter 9 The Health Care Crunch As population aging brings increased pressure on the health care system, reform becomes urgent.
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Chapter 10 What's Family? How demographic change is transforming family and other social relationships.
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Chapter 11 An Older, Wiser Canada How Canada can survive and prosper in the coming "grey interlude."
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Appendix I Demographic Forecasting How demographers think about the future.
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Appendix II Product and Activity Forecasting How to forecast just about anything.
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Index
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