Boom, Bust & Echo
Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century
by David K. Foot
with Daniel Stoffman
A fully expanded, updated and illustrated edition of the national best-seller.
"When it comes to projecting trends, David Foot has an impressive record." Roy MacGregor, Globe and Mail
Boom, Bust & Echo was the national phenomenon that demonstrated the power of demographics to help us understand the past and forecast the future. Now Boom, Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century reveals Canada's demographic profile at the turn of the century when a new population shift will have profound implications for our economic and social life.
"Seldom is a book published that becomes required reading for just about everyone - business executives, entrepreneurs, policy makers, politicians, planners and educators ... It's a course on the importance of demographics and how the patterns they reveal can be capitalized on by forward-thinkers." - Marketing Magazine
"If you own a bicycle helmet you might want to wear it while you read [this] engaging study... Otherwise you could give yourself a headache as you periodically slap your forehead and cry out, 'Now why didn't I think of that?' " - Edmonton Journal
Title: Boom, Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift
in the 21st Century
ISBN: 0-7737-6208-6
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
Date of Publication: Spring 2001, reprinted in 2004 by Footwork Consulting. Inc.; ISBN 1-55383-001-6, now out of print.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the New Edition- A new demographic shift has profound implications for Canadian economic and social life in the new millennium.
- Demography, the study of human populations, is the most powerful tool for understanding the past and forecasting the future.
- Why your year of birth is one of the most important things about you.
- Why the real estate boom happened, why it ended, and what the future holds for homeowners and investors.
- For investors with a long term perspective, demographic analysis reveals which areas of the economy will enjoy the most growth and which investments will be most likely to succeed.
- How the demographic shift is transforming the corporation and the nature of work.
- The arrival of the echo generation into its spending years creates a more complex retail environment. But, because of the power of the boom, stores offering quality and service will continue to prosper.
- Which leisure activities will grow in popularity and which ones won't.
- How demographic change affects urban development, transportation choices, and the crime rate.
- Why failure to adapt to demographic change inflated Canada's education costs and how we can avoid repeating the same mistake.
- Canada's health care system needs major reconstructive surgery to adapt to the needs of an aging population.
- How demographic change is transforming family and other social relationships.
- How Canada can survive and prosper in the coming "grey interlude".
- How demographers think about the future.
- How to forecast just about anything.