Economics and Ageing Volume IV: Political Economy /

• Main Author: Iparraguirre, José Luis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Health economics.; Aging.; Evolutionary economics.; Public finance.; Population.; Labor economics.; Health Economics.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Public Economics.; Population Economics.; Labor Economics.

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 ec...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Conceptualisations and Measurement
• 2. Theories and Empirical Findings
• 3. Happiness and Policy
• 4. Inequality
• 5. Poverty, Deprivation and Social Class
• 6. Some Questions of Intergenerational Economics
• 7. Ageing, House Prices, and Economic Crises
• 8. Behavioural Economics and Individual Ageing
• 9. Behavioural Economics and Policy
• 10. Economics and the Political Economy of Ageing
• 11. Gerontological Views
• 12. The Silver Economy.