Age Shock

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 *