Political Economy, Health, and Aging
Author | : Carroll L. Estes |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carroll L. Estes |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Meredith Minkler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1351842102 |
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
Author | : Meredith Minkler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781315223841 |
Author | : José Luis Iparraguirre |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2020-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030290131 |
This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences, and social care. This volume introduces topics in the economics of happiness, quality of life, and well-being in later life. It also covers questions of inequality and poverty, intergenerational economics, and housing. Other areas described in this book include behavioural economics, political economy, and consumption in ageing societies.
Author | : Michael B. Kleiman |
Publisher | : S. Karger AG (Switzerland) |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Meredith Minkler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 135186842X |
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.
Author | : Scott L. Greer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110897287X |
The mythical 'demographic timebomb' can be defused through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations.
Author | : David A. Wise |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226903214 |
Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of health, wealth, and living arrangements over the life course. Keeping with the global tradition of previous volumes, Analyses in the Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight of widows in India. Carefully compiled and containing some of the most cutting-edge research and analysis available, this volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement behaviors.
Author | : Sungsoo Joo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Older people |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kimiko Terai |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9811655367 |
This book integrates the economics of aging and insight based on political economy and explores generational conflict in the context of governmental spending. This problem is general, as the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted: lockdowns protect the elderly, but hurt the young. Policies to address global warming impose taxes on the elderly, but would bring benefits largely in the future. This book addresses intergenerational problems by placing its focus on budget allocation, taxation, and regulation. By using Japanese and US data, the authors conduct statistical analysis of whether regions with aging populations may adopt policies that generate benefits during a short period of time instead of policies that could benefit current young generations for an extended period of time. If the policy preferences of voters depend on their age, and if policy adoption by a government reflects public opinion, the change in demographic composition in a region may affect governmental policies. In an aged society, the elderly are pivotal voters. Budgets may be reallocated from policies favored by younger generations, such as education, to policies the elderly prefer, such as welfare programs. This generates an intergenerational externality problem: voters with short life expectancy do not take into consideration long-term benefits. Moreover, the current tax bases may be replaced by other tax bases that do not harm the elderly. The results reported in the book largely support these hypotheses. Evidence also shows that the gender and racial composition and institutional factors, including the extent of fiscal decentralization, are important in anticipating effects of population aging in other countries.