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Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare

Paperback – April 15, 1987
by Easterlin, Richard A.
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ISBN-13: 9780226180328 ISBN-10: 0226180328
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Binding
Paperback
Published
April 15, 1987
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
21.60×1.80×14.00 cm

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Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare by Easterlin, Richard A.. Paperback edition. ISBN: 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