Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare

ISBN-13: 9780226180328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 242 str.

Richard A. Easterlin

Opis

In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlinshows how the size of a generation the number of persons born in a particular year directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy.
" Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S." Jeffrey Madrick, "Business Week""