Political Economy, Health, and Aging
Author: Carroll L. Estes
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Carroll L. Estes
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meredith Minkler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1351842102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes 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: Michael B. Kleiman
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meredith Minkler
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781315223841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meredith Minkler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-25
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 135186842X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: José Luis Iparraguirre
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 3030290131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Sungsoo Joo
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David A. Wise
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-05-15
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0226903222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Economics of Aging presents results from an ongoing National Bureau of Economic Research project. Contributors consider the housing mobility and living arrangements of the elderly, their labor force participation and retirement, the economics of their health care, and their financial status. The goal of the research is to further our understanding both of the factors that determine the well-being of the elderly and of the consequences that follow from an increasingly older population with longer individual life spans. Each paper is accompanied by critical commentary.
Author: José Luis Iparraguirre
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 3319932489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 economics, health economics and the economics of ageing, but also policy makers, students, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences and social care. This volume introduces the different conceptualisations of age and definitions of `old age', as well as the main theories of individual ageing as developed in the disciplines of biology, psychology and sociology. It covers the economic theories of fertility, mortality and migration and describes the four main frameworks that can be used to study economics and ageing, namely the life cycle, the overlapping generations, the perpetual youth and the dynastic models.
Author: Kimiko Terai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9811655367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.