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Shock of gray : the aging of the world's population and how it pits young against old, child against parent, worker against boss, company against rival, and nation against nation / Ted C. Fishman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fishman, Ted C., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population aging.
- Population aging--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 401 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2010]
- Summary:
- In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
- Contents:
- Gray new world
- Greetings from Florida, God's waiting room
- Brief history of living much longer
- Señor moment : Spain's discovery of age
- How we (really) do (continuously) age
- Japan, land of the missing sun
- Twisting fates of the screw capital : Rockford, Illinois
- Vulnerable, cherished, frail, kind, bothersome, sweet, expensive, wise, lonely, and irrelevant : how do we see the elderly
- China : will it grow old before it grows rich?
- Generations at the table.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416551027
- 1416551026
- 9781439191132
- 1439191131
- OCLC:
- 535493364
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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