Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/262743 
Year of Publication: 
1991
Citation: 
[Journal:] Ageing & Society [ISSN:] 1469-1779 [Volume:] 11 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Cambridge University Press [Place:] Cambridge [Year:] 1991 [Pages:] 59-68
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Abstract: 
Population ageing is often thought to have adverse economic consequences, and economics therefore has a responsibility for contributing to an understanding of ageing. This paper discusses the treatment of population ageing in economic theory and argues that mainstream economics is too narrow and restrictive to provide an adequate representation of ageing. An alternative to mainstream economic theory is a more pluralistic view of ageing, drawing from non-neoclassical economic theory and from the theorising of the other social sciences.
Subjects: 
population ageing
economic theory
economic methodology
social gerontology
realism
pluralism
JEL: 
A12
B41
J11
J14
Z13
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)
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