Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers Between Generations

ISBN-13: 9780198296201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 424 str.

Andrew Mason; Georges Tapinos

Opis

This book is a collection of papers by leading scholars whose research concerns economic transfers between generations. The issues addressed have great relevance to demographic issues, particularly the determination of fertility, to economic issues, including equity and growth, and to public policy, especially social security reform.

Recenzje

All of the essays in this book are informative, they hang together well, and the editors' introduction provides a valuable synthesis

O autorze

Andrew Mason is Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Program on Population at the East-West Center. He has served on advisory committees and as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US Agency for International Development, and the United Nations. Georges Tapinos is Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and a former General Secretary of IUSSP.