Towards a Positive Equilibrium for Ageing Societies

Gosta Esping-Andersen
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Karl Aiginger

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Abstract: Most of the debate on ageing has centred on how to ensure long-term financial sustainability. Much suggests that we have allowed ourselves to get too bogged down in demographic and actuarial arithmetic at the expense of grander visions of a good, just and productive society in which, as it happens, ageing looms large. This paper is meant to stimulate the latter kind of concern ...

Keywords: Towards; a; Positive; Equilibrium; for; Ageing; Societies; European; Union; Economic; Policy; Issues; for; the; Next; Decade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003 Written 2003-12-01
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