Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226180328)

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

Author: Richard a. Easterlin
ISBN-10: 0226180328
ISBN-13: 9780226180328
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1987
Pages: 235
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.45w x 0.74d