Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare - Softcover

Easterlin, Richard A. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226180328 ISBN 13: 9780226180328

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1987

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Richard A. Easterlin is professor of economics at the University of Southern California.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226180328
• ISBN 13: 9780226180328
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240