Theories of cycles and prospects of fertility in France
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International audience In an increasingly uncertain world, rulers and their public opinion need reassurance and are seeking, more or less founded and rational, invariants. Because they anticipate the course of an evolution, the theories of cycles take the place of reducers of uncertainty. With regard to fertility, how useful are these theories of cycles? Are they predictive? Gérard-François Dumont shows that this is not the case and examines the non-cyclical fertility theories.