Pension Security in the 21st Century, 9780199285570
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Future pension provision is highly controversial; it juxtaposes the challenges of old age security with the exigencies of global finance. This multi-disciplinary book, of interest to political scientists, social policy academics and economists, exposes the contradictory political and financial press…

Pension Security in the 21st Century

redrawing the public-private debate

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    308 pages

  • Release Date

    7 July 2005

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Summary

Future pension provision is highly controversial; it juxtaposes the challenges of old age security with the exigencies of global finance. Clearly, demography, finance and public accountability are crucial to current political debate. But there are other important issues. The problems of paying for the retirement of the baby boom generation has exposed profound differences in the advanced economies in terms of their financial institutions andinfrastructure. Pension security has been re-concept…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199285570
ISBN-10:0199285578
Author:Gordon L. Clark, Noel Whiteside
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:308
Release Date:7 July 2005
Weight:465g
Dimensions:233mm x 157mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

`Review from previous edition Here is the best guide to the turmoil into which European pensions are being plunged. At last, a book that provocatively recasts the debate, written by first-class experts, who expose the complex political and financial dimensions of an issue that, in the long run, is central to all of us in later life.‘Rt. Hon. Frank Field , Member of the UK Parliament, Chairman of the Pensions Reform Group

About The Author

Gordon L. Clark

Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Professorial Fellow of the Saïd Business School, and Faculty Associate 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.; Noel Whiteside is Professor of Comparative Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick. She was appointed Zurich Financial Services Fellow in 2000.

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