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Challenges of Aging

Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice

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  • © 2015

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  1. Cornelius Torp

    1. University of Augsburg, Germany

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies

    1. Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies

      • Cornelius Torp
      Pages 1-14

  3. The Multiple Facets of Population Aging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Demography

      • Sarah Harper
      Pages 17-29

    3. Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective

      • Ronald Lee
      Pages 31-46

  6. The Problem of Generational Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions

      • John Macnicol
      Pages 229-249

    3. Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the ‘Problem’ of the Baby Boomers

      • Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard
      Pages 251-263

    4. Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts

      • Martin Kohli
      Pages 265-288

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295
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About this book

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading experts from diverse disciplines describe the fundamental impact demographic aging has on pension systems, on the concepts of retirement and old age, and on the balance of generational justice.

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“Challenges of Aging: Pensions, Retirement, and Generational Justice addresses challenges facing older people and challenges that may be, at least in part, created by older people. … Challenges of Aging is a timely contribution to the aging policy literature by reason of both the strength of contributions and the volume’s clear organization.” (Robert B. Hudson, The Gerontologist, Vol. 57 (3), 2017)


“‘Challenges of Aging’, when taken as a whole, offers some rather consistent messages across the three broad topics: pensions, retirement and generational justice. … There is just enough analysis … to satisfy the tastes of the quantatively-inclined reader. Yet, the book also provides relevant commentary on social policy history and political institutions and processes (e.g.,Weaver’s chapter on policy feedbacks). This makes the book easily accessible to a diverse but relatively general audience.” (Laurel Hixon, Journal of Population Ageing, Vol. 9, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Augsburg, Germany

    Cornelius Torp

About the editor

Cornelius Torp is Professor of Modern History at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Previously, he has been Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany.

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