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Making Demography Astonishing: Lessons in the Politics of Population Science

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Greenhalgh, S. Making Demography Astonishing: Lessons in the Politics of Population Science. Demography 55, 721–731 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0660-0

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