The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
ShareIn conversation with historian Kevin Starr
What will America look like in 2050? Kotkin, a renowned social and economic trend analyst, argues that the key to America’s economic recovery is its robust population growth.
Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognized authority on global economic, political, social and technological trends. He is the author of six books, including The City: A Global History, and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape. Kotkin writes regular columns for Forbes and Politico.com, and contributes to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He appears regularly on ABC News, CNBC, Fox News, and NPR, and is the executive editor of www.newgeography.com. A leading expert on the evolution of cities, towns, and rural places, Kotkin has written major reports on the future of New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles, rural North Dakota, suburban Montreal, and the Inland Empire region of southern California. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Urban Future and lectures widely in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
Dr. Kevin Starr is the state librarian emeritus ofCalifornia and University Professor and professor of history at USC. Starr has written ten books, six of which are part of his "Americans and the California Dream" series. He has also written Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 and California, A History, a Modern Library Chronicles book. His writing has won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, membership in the Society of American Historians, the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Lifetime Achievement Award, PENUSA, Western Center. In June 2006 he was given the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Harvard University.
