Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare

by Richard A. Easterlin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226180328
• ISBN13: 9780226180328
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"