{"product_id":"boomer-bust-2-volumes-economic-and-political-issues-of-the-graying-society-praeger-perspectives","title":"Boomer Bust? [2 Volumes]: Economic and Political Issues of the Graying Society (Praeger Perspectives)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy-six million Baby Boomers are careening toward retirement in the United States. Demographic shifts toward aging populations are taking place around the Western world, as a variety of factors--biological, technological, medical, and sociocultural--are extending life spans. Meanwhile, birth rates are declining. The scaremongers argue that this generational shift is going to be disastrous: It will result in skyrocketing tax rates, lower retirement and health benefits, higher inflation, increased unemployment and poverty, political instability, and a host of other societal ills. But will it? In \u003ci\u003eBoomer Bust?\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Hudson assembles leading authors from fields such as economics, political science, and finance to separate fact from fiction, highlight the terms of debate, and showcase innovative policies that will prevent disaster from occurring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom topics like Social Security to older people rejoining the workforce to the elderly as a political lobby, this two-volume set covers the gamut of economic, political, financial, and business issues related to aging. The Boomer generation will leave one of the largest footprints the world has yet seen. In retirement, as in all else, this generation is blazing a path affecting succeeding generations profoundly. \u003ci\u003eBoomer Bust?\u003c\/i\u003e charts a path through the thicket of personal and public policy choices facing not just Baby Boomers but all of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncludes bibliographical references and index.;v. 1. Perspectives on the boomers -- v. 2. The boomers and their future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I: Demographic and Social Profile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Baby Boom Age Wave: Population Success or Tsunami?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreg ONeill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Boomer Diversity and Wellbeing: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan E. Mutchler and Jeffrey Burr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. A History of Productive Aging and the Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW. Andrew Achenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II: Boomers and the New Economics of Aging\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Boomers and Their Economic Prospects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaren C. Holden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Will the Boomers Revolutionize Work and Retirement?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSara E. Rix\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Looming Economics of Boomer Health Care\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristine Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III: Boomers and the New Politics of Aging\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Public Policy and the Boomers: An Expanding Scope of Conflict\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert B. Hudson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The Boomers in Politics: Impact and Consequences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert H. Binstock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Aging Boomers, Generational Equity, and the Framing of the Debate over Social Security\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn B. Williamson and Diane M. Watts-Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart IV: The Boomers and Public Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Population Aging, Entitlement Growth, and the Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Gist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Private Pensions and the Boomers: How Much is Enough?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack VanDerhei and Craig Copeland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Medicare in the Image of the Baby Boom Generation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward F. Lawlor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Long-Term Care Policy as an Investment in Baby Boomers and Future Generations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichelle Putnam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Differential Treatment by Age: Age Discrimination or Age Affirmation?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Macnicol\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. Aging Policy as Family Policy: Expanding Family Leave and Improving Flexible Work Policies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteven K. Wisensale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Financial World of the Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Boomers and the Many Meanings of Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael A. Smyer, Elyssa Besen, and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Redesigning Work for an Aging Labor Force: Employer and Employee Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane S. Piktialis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Later Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward G. Rogoff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Planning for the Boomers Future: The Emergence of Financial Gerontology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeal E. Cutler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Living and Leaving: Financial and Estate Planning for Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald Ray Haas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II: The Civic World of the Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Providing New Opportunities for Voluntarism and Civic Engagement for Boomers: Chaos Theory Redefined\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura B. Wilson and Karen Harlow-Rosentraub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Gearing Up for the Big Show: Lifelong Learning Programs are Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRonald J. Manheimer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Booming Opportunity: Philanthropy, Aging, and Recognizing That the Glass Is Half Full\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Martin and Alan Pardini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Evaluating Images of Aging in the Print and Broadcast Media\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria D. Vesperi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Better Together: Generational Reciprocity in the Real World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonna M. Butts and Jaia Peterson Lent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Social World of the Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Living Large While Living Small: The Spatial Life of Aging Boomers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilip B. Stafford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Getting Around: Meeting Aging Boomers Mobility Needs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLisa J. Molnar and David W. Eby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Multigenerational Bonds, Family Support, and Baby Boomers: Current Challenges and Future Prospects for Elder Care\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudith G. Gonyea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Who Will Care? Building the Geriatric Long-Term Care Labor Force\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary F. Harahan and Robyn I. Stone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert B. Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of social policy at Boston University. Among the world's leading authorities on the politics and economics of aging, he is the author of dozens of articles, book chapters, reports, and presentations on aging and public policy. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Politics of Old Age Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, and he serves as editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003ePublic Policy \u0026amp; Aging Report\u003c\/i\u003e, the quarterly publication of the \u003ci\u003eNational Academy on an Aging Society\u003c\/i\u003e. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Editor Hudson (social policy, Boston U.) and contributors note that in the USA alone, over 76,000,000 baby boomers are careening toward retirement. While they acknowledge that the generation that demanded sports utility vehicles and birthing rooms may present an extraordinary challenge to eldercare, it is not necessarily true they will cause skyrocketing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etax rates and decreased retirement and health benefits for later generations. They also explain how, with proper management of available resources, the retirement of massive numbers of baby boomers will not necessarily increase inflation, cause political instability, create generational conflict, or reduce services to others in need. They separate fact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom fear as they explain proven policies that consider demographics and the social profile of boomers, explain how private personal finance options can shoulder some of the load, and comment on mitigating factors such as green living, mobility and advances in elder care.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference \u0026amp; Research Book News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended. All readership levels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventy-six million Baby Boomers are careening toward retirement in the United States. Demographic shifts toward aging populations are taking place around the Western world, as a variety of factors--biological, technological, medical, and sociocultural--are extending life spans. Meanwhile, birth rates are declining. The scaremongers argue that this generational shift is going to be disastrous: It will result in skyrocketing tax rates, lower retirement and health benefits, higher inflation, increased unemployment and poverty, political instability, and a host of other societal ills. But will it? In \u003ci\u003eBoomer Bust?\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Hudson assembles leading authors from fields such as economics, political science, and finance to separate fact from fiction, highlight the terms of debate, and showcase innovative policies that will prevent disaster from occurring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom topics like Social Security to older people rejoining the workforce to the elderly as a political lobby, this two-volume set covers the gamut of economic, political, financial, and business issues related to aging. The Boomer generation will leave one of the largest footprints the world has yet seen. In retirement, as in all else, this generation is blazing a path affecting succeeding generations profoundly. \u003ci\u003eBoomer Bust?\u003c\/i\u003e charts a path through the thicket of personal and public policy choices facing not just Baby Boomers but all of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eChoice\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/01\/2009 (EAN 9780275995492, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 145 (EAN 9780275995492, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eHudson, Robert B\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert B. Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of social policy at Boston University. Among the world's leading authorities on the politics and economics of aging, he is the author of dozens of articles, book chapters, reports, and presentations on aging and public policy. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Politics of Old Age Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, and he serves as editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003ePublic Policy \u0026amp; Aging Report\u003c\/i\u003e, the quarterly publication of the \u003ci\u003eNational Academy on an Aging Society\u003c\/i\u003e. 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