| Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare Contributor(s): Easterlin, Richard a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226180328 ISBN-13: 9780226180328 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1987 Annotation: In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation - the number of persons born in a particular year - directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the composition and dissolution of the family, and the general well-being of the economy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Business & Economics |
| Dewey: 304.609 |
| LCCN: 86030724 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.45" W x 8.51" (0.60 lbs) 235 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation--the number of persons born in a particular year--directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy. [Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S.--Jeffrey Madrick, Business Week |