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...

1. Conceptualisations and Measurement -- 2. Theories and Empirical Findings -- 3. Happiness and Policy -- 4. Inequality -- 5. Poverty, Deprivation and Social Class -- 6. Some Questions of Intergenerational Economics -- 7. Ageing, House Prices, and Economic Crises -- 8. Behavioural Economics and...