Description

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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.

About the Author

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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.