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Gerontocracy in America : how the old are hoarding power and wealth - and what to do about it / Samuel Moyn.
Van Pelt Library HQ1063.2.U5 M68 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moyn, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontocracy.
- Population aging--Government policy.
- Population aging.
- Population aging--Economic aspects.
- Older people--Social conditions.
- Older people.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2026]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond Biden
- Part II. Toward the great aging
- The rule of elders
- The revolt of everyone else
- Staying alive
- Part II. The faces of gerontocracy
- Old Politicians
- How politicians aged
- Our councils of elders
- Younger faces in the highest places
- Old constituents
- Aging voters
- The real trouble with the AARP
- Saving #OurDemocracy- from old people
- Old money
- Oldigarchy
- Old men at work
- Just retirements
- Part III. A new phase for the wrinkled- and power for the rest
- The Socialist way of aging
- Why Neoliberals are wrong about "entitlements"
- Ageism and the necessity of limits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374607647
- 0374607648
- OCLC:
- 1535704982
- Publisher Number:
- 90104425075
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