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Teresa Ghilarducci
University of Notre Dame Press

What You Need to Know about the Economics of Growing Old (But Were Afraid to Ask): A Provocative Reference Guide to the Economics of Aging

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AuthorTeresa Ghilarducci
PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
PublishedJan 11 2018
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780268029630
Dimensions8.64 X 5.58 X 0.46 inches
Weight 0.46 pounds
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CategoriesBusiness & Economics > Personal Finance - Retirement Planning
LanguageEnglish

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This little book has a knack for asking the right questions. It's on my 'A' list for information on retirement issues. --John Turner, editor of Pay at Risk With the aid of her Economics of Aging class, Teresa Ghilarducci has compiled this comprehensive sourcebook as a guide for politicians, economists, journalists, students, and ordinary Americans through the maze of Social Security and the economics of growing old in America. What You Need to Know About the Economics of Growing Old (But Were Afraid to Ask) is divided into five sections. The first section addresses the status of the elderly and explores such issues as the average life expectancy and the number of elderly living in poverty. The second deals with the structure of the Social Security system and its disbursements of benefits. The third traces the economic path to old age. The fourth considers changing social norms, including the increase in the number of women in the workforce. The final section looks at what happens when the elderly work for pay. This book will be valuable from the classroom to the halls of Congress. Simply put, it contains information everyone should know. Who says young people don't care about social security and economists can't write readable books. Teresa Ghilarducci and her band of college students have written an accessible, enlightening volume for anyone--from students to seniors, workers to policy makers, and journalists to academics--who wants the straight story about older people's quality of life and our retirement system. A must-read if you are retired or if you care about retiring some day. --Clair Brown, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Stories about the aging of the baby boom generation are often filled with hyperbole, pseudo facts, and just plain nonsense. Now, thanks to a volume edited by Teresa Ghilarducci, there is a clear and practical guide to the economic realities of an older America. It turns out that tomorrow's facts make a better story than the fantasies today's doomsayers are dreaming up. --Richard C. Leone, President, The Century Foundation

Author Bio

Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally-recognized expert in retirement security.

She holds the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in economic policy analysis in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research and directs the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) that focuses on economic policy research and outreach.

Ghilarducci joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame.

Her most recent book, Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans, offers solutions to the growing retirement crisis in the U.S. Her previous books include How to Retire with Enough Money, When I’m Sixty Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, published in 2008' Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, winner of an Association of American Publishers award in 1992; and Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets, published in 1995.

Education

PhD 1984, University of California, Berkeley

Source: The New School for Social Research

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