Economics and Ageing Volume I: Theory /

• 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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• 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 economics, health econo...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Basic Concepts
• Chapter 1: Conceptualisations of Age
• Chapter 2: Age, Period, Cohort, and Generational Effects
• Chapter 3: Life-cycle, Life-course, Life-span
• Chapter 4: Theories of Individual Ageing
• Part II: Demographics, Population Ageing and Economics
• Chapter 5: Introduction to Demography and Economics
• Chapter 6: Economic Theories of Demographic Change
• Part III: A Brief Incursion into the Epistemology of Economics
• Chapter 7: Models and Time in Economics
• Part IV: Four Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Economics and Ageing
• Chapter 8: Life-cycle Framework
• Chapter 9: The Overlapping Generations framework
• Chapter 10: Perpetual youth and dynastic models.