Age shock
Subtitle: how finance is failing us
By: Robin Blackburn
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781844670130
Subjects: Old age pensions -- United States; Old age pensions -- Great Britain; Pension trusts -- United States; Pension trusts -- Great Britain; Population aging -- Economic aspects -- United States; Population aging -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the need for a new collectivism; title: The new life course : its shape and costs; title: The divided welfare state and the river of time; title: Commercial and corporate failure; title: The murky world of Grey capital; title: The limits of reform and shareholder activism; title: The need for strong public pensions; title: How to finance decent pensions-and tame the corporations; title: Epilogue