Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
Found: A 160-year-old Book in a Local Coffee Shop
Near Stockholm’s elegant main library, I wandered into a coffee shop. The chain which has such shops all over town has a distinctive décor in that the walls, from tabletop level to the tall ceiling, have bookshelves filled with very … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Literary fiction, Literature, satire
Tagged Brobdingnag, Houyhnhnms, Laputa, Lilliput
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“Demography is Destiny”…
… and Europe’s Destiny Dwindles. The quotation is borrowed from Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857), the reputed originator of the study of ‘sociology’, after having experienced the French Revolution. The polities of the defined continent of Europe (excluding Russia, which … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Immigration
Tagged fertility rate, net migration rate, population decline, population growth rate
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The Pavellas Perspective 