
Age Shock
How Finance Is Failing Us
Robin Blackburn(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-84467-765-8 (ISBN)
Description
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated paperback edition of Age Shock includes a new preface explaining why the credit crunch and eurozone crisis have had such a devastating impact and outlining a way to guarantee decent pensions and care provision.
Reviews / Votes
A serious and finely argued attack on contemporary market fundamentalism in a vivid phrasemaking style, which is even entertaining when it is not depressing you with the facts. * The Guardian * An ambitious recasting of pensions strategy for an aging society. -- Goeran Therborn * New Left Review * An impressive book ... Blackburn argues that the hard-won state systems and the private pensions that supplement them have come under threat. * New York Review of Books * Blackburn's book is a serious and finely argued attack on contemporary market fundamentalism in a vivid phrasemaking style. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-765-8 (9781844677658)
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E-Book
01/2012
1st Edition
Verso
€33.39
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E-Book
01/2012
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€43.49
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Previous edition

Book
12/2006
Verso Books
€44.79
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Person
Robin Blackburn teaches at the University of Essex and is an editor at New Left Review. He is the author of many books, including The American Crucible, The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock and Banking on Death.