Nicholas Eberstadt

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Nicholas Nash Eberstadt (born 1955) is an American

Eberstadt was born on December 20, 1955, in New York City.[1]^[2] His father, Frederick Eberstadt, was an author and photographer.^[2] His mother, Isabel Nash, was a novelist.^[2] His paternal grandfather, Ferdinand Eberstadt, was an investment banker and co-founder of the Central Intelligence Agency; his maternal grandfather, Ogden Nash, was a poet. His sister, Fernanda Eberstadt, is a novelist.

Eberstadt graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1972.^[2] He then earned his A.B. magna cum laude in economics from Harvard College in 1976, and his M.Sc. in Social Planning for Developing Countries from the London School of Economics in 1978.^[2][3] He completed his M.P.A. at Harvard Kennedy School in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University in 1995.^[3]

Career

Eberstadt was a teaching fellow at Harvard University from 1976 to 1979, instructing courses in population and natural resources, agricultural economics, social science and social policy, and problems of policy making in less developed countries. He was a visiting research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1979 to 1980, meanwhile serving as an associate of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1980 to 2002, Eberstadt was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Eberstadt joined his current institution, the American Enterprise Institute, as a visiting fellow in 1985. He assumed the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy and became a resident fellow in 1999.^[3]

From 1988 to 1990, Eberstadt served as an adviser to the

He was awarded the AEI Irving Kristol Award in 2020.^[8]

Personal life

Eberstadt married Mary Tedeschi, now a scholar at the Hoover Institution, in 1987.^[2] They have four children: Rick, Kate, Izzi, and Alexandra and reside in Washington, D.C.^[9] His daughters, Izzi and Kate, graduates of Barnard College and Columbia University, respectively, founded the music duo Delune.^[10][11]

Selected works

• Eberstadt, Nicholas (1979). Poverty in China. Bloomington, Indiana: International Development Institute.
  ISBN 9780892490271
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (1988). The Poverty of Communism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books.
  OCLC 60045171
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (1988). Foreign Aid and American Purpose. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 17951562
  .
• Banister, Judith; Eberstadt, Nicholas (1992). The Population of North Korea (PDF). Berkeley, California: Center for Korean Studies.
  OCLC 26126272
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (1995). The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 25282807
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (1999). The End of North Korea. Washington, D.C: AEI Press.
  OCLC 40668263
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2000). Prosperous Paupers & Other Population Problems. Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
  OCLC 43615787
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas; Ellings, Richard J., eds. (2001). Korea's Future and the Great Powers. Seattle, Washington: National Bureau of Asian Research.
  OCLC 45757810
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2004). Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 53831723
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2007). Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 173509452
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2007). The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis & Catastrophe. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
  OCLC 64771130
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2008). Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 631882447
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2008). The Poverty of "the Poverty Rate" : Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
  OCLC 239235634
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2010). Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications. Seattle, Washington: National Bureau of Asian Research.
  OCLC 867796813
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2012). A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic. West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Templeton Press.
  OCLC 809613762
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2016).
  OCLC 945948392
  .
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2017). Our Miserable 21st Century. Commentary. 15 February 2017.
• Eberstadt, Nicholas (2021). Can America Cope with Demographic Decline?. Commentary. 18 October 2021.