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This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health economics and the economics of ageing, but also policy makers, students, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences and social care. This volume introduces the different conceptualisations of age and definitions of `old age', as well as the main theories of individual ageing as developed in the disciplines of biology, psychology and sociology. It covers the economic theories of fertility, mortality and migration and describes the four main frameworks that can be used to study economics and ageing, namely the life cycle, the overlapping generations, the perpetual youth and the dynastic models.
This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health economics and the economics of ageing, but also policy makers, students, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences and social care. This volume discusses the fiscal implications of ageing, health economics and long-term care. Fiscal policy issues include generational accounting and national transfer accounts, the relationship between ageing, public expenditure a...
The evolution of geological cartography in Cuba in its more than 135 years of history has been possible through the consultation of numerous archival reports, publications, maps and personal interviews with different authors and geologists of vast experience. A brief critical analysis is made of the increase in the degree of geological knowledge of the country since the elaboration of the Geological Sketch of the Cuban Island at a scale of 1: 2 000 000 (Fernández de Castro, 1883), first of Cuba and of Ibero-America, until the most recent Digital Geological Map of Cuba at scale 1: 100 000 (Pérez Aragón, 2016). Cuba and its surroundings are a geological mosaic in the southeast corner of the...
¿Cuál es el contenido y la novedad en El reino del río Turquesa? Esta es una obra de investigación histórica y una visión actual. Enfoca los pueblos de Vilca y Moya, situados en la cuenca del río Vilca, de singular color turquesa, la que constituye límite político, geográfico y lingüístico entre las provincias de Huancavelica y Huancayo. Sus páginas dan cuenta del singular carácter social e histórico de dichos pueblos y busca generar mayor orgullo entre sus hijos y descendientes. Así, tal sentimiento será más auténtico, demostrado e indiscutible. El contenido del libro sigue una secuencia cronológica de los grandes hitos históricos que han marcado la personalidad de los pueblos de Moya y Vilca y está avalado por más de 300 fuentes bibliográficas. Sus siete capítulos pueden ser leídos en forma independiente uno de otro.