This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable...

The rising role of intra- and intergenerational transfers (e.g. basic income, child benefit and public pensions) characterises modern economies, yet most models depicting these transfers are too sophisticated for a wider but mathematically trained audience. This book presents simple models to...

This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric

DICE-2013R and Other Integrated Assessment Models -- Consumer Sovereignty vs. Intergenerational Equity: An Overview of the Stern-Nordhaus Debate -- Intergenerational Discounting and Overlapping Generations Models -- Intergenerational Discounting in the DICE Model.

Basics -- Economic Growth and Natural Resources -- Efficiency and Market Equilibrium under Resource Abundance -- Intergenerational Efficiency in Log-linear Cobb-Douglas OLG Models -- Intertemporal Market Equilibrium and Short-Run Intergenerational Efficiency -- Steady-State Market Equilibrium,...

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health...

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the...

Introduction -- A Brief Survey of the Literature -- The Closed Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Infinite Horizon -- The Small Open Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Two Countries: The Solow Model -- Synopsis -- Conclusion -- Result