Phillip Longman

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Phillip Longman is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Research Director of the Next Social Contract Initiative. He is the author of numerous articles and books on demographics, economics, and social change. His work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Der Spiegel, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Monthly. His book, The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It, was published by Basic Books in 2004, and reissued in paperback in 2006. It examines how the rapid yet uneven fall in birth rates around the globe is affecting the balance of power between nations and influencing the global economy and culture. His latest book, Best Care Anywhere, published by Polipoint in 2007, chronicles the quality transformation of the Veterans Administration's health care system, and applies its lessons to a plan for reforming the U.S. health care system as a whole. He is currently at work with Ray Boshara on a book entitled The Next Progressive Era.

Mr. Longman is also the author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1987) and The Return of Thrift: How the Collapse of the Middle Class Welfare State Will Reawaken Values in America (Free Press, 1997). Formerly a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, he has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, and the top prize for investigative journalism from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.

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