Does Economics Provide a Unified Account of Aging Behavior and Aging Policy?  

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Daniels, Norman

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 108 no. 3 (Apr. 1998), page 569-585.
Topik: Posner’s Promise; Biology; Demography; Aging

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.7 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Richard Posner, a founder of the “law and economics” movement, is chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. A prolific scholar, he is best known for extending neoliberal economic thinking, especially Gary Becker’s views about investment in “human capital,” into a wide range of nonmarket areas, including topics as diverse as torts, sex, AIDS,jurisprudence, law and literature, and race. In Aging and Old Age, he extends the “conventional” life-cycle, human capital model to include age-related changes in capabilities. These include forms of physical and cognitive decline and, quite centrally, a shift to “knowledge” from “imagination.”’ Posner identifies this shift in cognitive style with Aristotle’s claim that the old live by memory, the young by hope, further equating it with the contemporary distinction between “crystallized” and “fluid” intelligence (roughly, the distinction between experience-based skills and knowledge and capabilities involved in solving novel problems). He believes this purported change in style of thinking supports the view that “multiple selves” sequentially share the same body. The multiple-selves account in turn requires important modifications of the conventional economic view.

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