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Matthew Lucky

Matthew Lucky is the assistant director of programs at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Political Science from Indiana University and holds master's and bachelor's degrees from Arizona State University. His research focuses on the intersection of democratic theory and science & technology studies. A central point of focus for his scholarship is the incorporation of artificial intelligence into state bureaucracies and the public sphere. Matt’s research has been published in Political Theory and the Marcusean Mind, and he has taught courses in government at Indiana University.
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The Political Economy of Fertility

Matthew Lucky
Stigler Center Assistant Director of Programs Matthew Lucky traces the history of ideas about population growth and its relation to welfare from Malthusian concerns of a population bomb to contemporary studies correlating declining birth rates in developed countries with increased investments in human capital and GDP per capita. Scholars now debate what it means for a society to have populations that do not simply stop growing, but rapidly shrink.

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