European Pensions & Global Finance
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- Paperback
268 pages
- Release Date
16 January 2003
Summary
This book is about the demographic and funding crises that threaten continental European systems of pension and retirement income. The author argues that state-sponsored social security will not deliver promised retirement incomes for the baby-boom generation; European monetary union and the imperatives of global finance has made such promises untenable thereby undercutting nation-state social solidarity. Globalization has set many challenges for European countries,not least of which is provi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199253647 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199253641 |
| Author: | Gordon L. Clark |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 268 |
| Release Date: | 16 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 156mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
`European Pensions and Global Finance is a thought-provoking and lucid book. Drawing on research from a diverse range of fields ranging from sociology to geography to financial economics, Gordon Clark has succeeded in producing perhaps the best overall exposition of the key issues of governance and globalisation and their role in the evolution of pensions in Europe. This is a book which can and should be read by anyone who wishes to further theirunderstanding of European pensions.‘Mike Orszag, Head of Research, Watson Whatt; Chairman, Research Committee, International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors
About The Author
Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Fellow of the Saïd Business School, and Research Fellow of the Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford. He is a member of the Panel of Academic Experts of the UK National Association of Pension Funds and a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute.
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