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1997 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Forward to the Nineteenth Century: Has Growing Old Gracefully Become a Luxury?

verfasst von : Peter Curwen

Erschienen in: Restructuring the Welfare State

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The Twentieth Century will soon be history. It has witnessed enormous advances in economic and social welfare within Western Europe, which has created the expectation that each successive generation will enjoy a higher standard of living than its predecessor. The primary purpose of this chapter is to examine whether this expectation has become unrealistic, at least until well into the next century.

Metadaten
Titel
Forward to the Nineteenth Century: Has Growing Old Gracefully Become a Luxury?
verfasst von
Peter Curwen
Copyright-Jahr
1997
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60652-6_11