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Boomer Bust? Economic and Political Issues of the Graying Society
Edited by Robert B. Hudson
ISBN: 0-275-99549-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99549-2
576 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/3/2008
List Price: $200.00 (UK Sterling Price: £137.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "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
    tax 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
    from 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."
    —Reference & Research Book News     May 2009
  • "Highly recommended. All readership levels."
    —CHOICE     August 2009
Description: Seventy-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 Boomer Bust?, 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.

From 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. Boomer Bust? charts a path through the thicket of personal and public policy choices facing not just Baby Boomers but all of society.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1
    Preface
    Part I: Demographic and Social Profile
    1. The Baby Boom Age Wave: Population Success or Tsunami?
    Greg ONeill
    2. Boomer Diversity and Wellbeing: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
    Jan E. Mutchler and Jeffrey Burr
    3. A History of Productive Aging and the Boomers
    W. Andrew Achenbaum
    Part II: Boomers and the New Economics of Aging
    4. The Boomers and Their Economic Prospects
    Karen C. Holden
    5. Will the Boomers Revolutionize Work and Retirement?
    Sara E. Rix
    6. The Looming Economics of Boomer Health Care
    Christine Bishop
    Part III: Boomers and the New Politics of Aging
    7. Public Policy and the Boomers: An Expanding Scope of Conflict
    Robert B. Hudson
    8. The Boomers in Politics: Impact and Consequences
    Robert H. Binstock
    9. Aging Boomers, Generational Equity, and the Framing of the Debate over Social Security
    John B. Williamson and Diane M. Watts-Roy
    Part IV: The Boomers and Public Policy
    10. Population Aging, Entitlement Growth, and the Economy
    John Gist
    11. Private Pensions and the Boomers: How Much is Enough?
    Jack VanDerhei and Craig Copeland
    12. Medicare in the Image of the Baby Boom Generation
    Edward F. Lawlor
    13. Long-Term Care Policy as an Investment in Baby Boomers and Future Generations
    Michelle Putnam
    14. Differential Treatment by Age: Age Discrimination or Age Affirmation?
    John Macnicol
    15. Aging Policy as Family Policy: Expanding Family Leave and Improving Flexible Work Policies
    Steven K. Wisensale
    About the Editor and Contributors
    Volume 2
    Preface
    Part I: The Financial World of the Boomers
    1. Boomers and the Many Meanings of Work
    Michael A. Smyer, Elyssa Besen, and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
    2. Redesigning Work for an Aging Labor Force: Employer and Employee Perspectives
    Diane S. Piktialis
    3. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Later Life
    Edward G. Rogoff
    4. Planning for the Boomers Future: The Emergence of Financial Gerontology
    Neal E. Cutler
    5. Living and Leaving: Financial and Estate Planning for Boomers
    Donald Ray Haas
    Part II: The Civic World of the Boomers
    6. Providing New Opportunities for Voluntarism and Civic Engagement for Boomers: Chaos Theory Redefined
    Laura B. Wilson and Karen Harlow-Rosentraub
    7. Gearing Up for the Big Show: Lifelong Learning Programs are Coming of Age
    Ronald J. Manheimer
    8. Booming Opportunity: Philanthropy, Aging, and Recognizing That the Glass Is Half Full
    Robert Martin and Alan Pardini
    9. Evaluating Images of Aging in the Print and Broadcast Media
    Maria D. Vesperi
    10. Better Together: Generational Reciprocity in the Real World
    Donna M. Butts and Jaia Peterson Lent
    Part III: The Social World of the Boomers
    11. Living Large While Living Small: The Spatial Life of Aging Boomers
    Philip B. Stafford
    12. Getting Around: Meeting Aging Boomers Mobility Needs
    Lisa J. Molnar and David W. Eby
    13. Multigenerational Bonds, Family Support, and Baby Boomers: Current Challenges and Future Prospects for Elder Care
    Judith G. Gonyea
    14. Who Will Care? Building the Geriatric Long-Term Care Labor Force
    Mary F. Harahan and Robyn I. Stone
    About the Editor and Contributors
About the Author: Robert B. Hudson 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 The New Politics of Old Age Policy, and he serves as editor-in-chief of Public Policy & Aging Report, the quarterly publication of the National Academy on an Aging Society. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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