This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the … booming stock market of the 1990s did their share to influence individual wealth accumulation patterns of Americans. These …

political legitimacy; the desire to transfer to similar people; increased wealth; and the outcome of leviathan government. We … that the probability of adopting a system declines with increases in wealth and with greater ethnic heterogeneity. Still …