1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451262603321

Titolo

Frontiers in the economics of aging [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David A. Wise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1998

ISBN

1-281-22412-X

9786611224127

0-226-90323-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (510 p.)

Collana

A National Bureau of Economic Research project report

Altri autori (Persone)

WiseDavid A

Disciplina

305.26

Soggetti

Aging - Economic aspects - United States

Older people - United States - Economic conditions

Retirement - Economic aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers presented at a conference held at Carefree, Arizona in April 1997"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Personal Retirement Saving Programs and Asset Accumulation: Reconciling the Evidence -- 2. Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving -- 3. The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap -- 4. The Medical Costs of the Young and Old: A Forty-Year Perspective -- 5. Diagnosis and Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life -- 6. The Impact of Intrafamily Correlations on the Viability of Catastrophic Insurance -- 7. Health Events, Health Insurance, and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey -- 8. Consumption and Savings Balances of the Elderly: Experimental Evidence on Survey Response Bias -- 9. Stochastic Forecasts for Social Security -- 10. Health, Income, and Inequality over the Life Cycle -- 11. Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly



becomes increasingly important to public policy. Frontiers in the Economics in Aging directs attention to four topics: the role of retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s in personal saving; the economics of health care; new advances in research methodology; and aging in relation to inequality. Some of the issues analyzed within these topics are the implications of rising personal retirement saving in recent years, how health and health insurance affect labor supply, and the effects of pensions on the distribution of wealth. David Wise's lucid introduction provides an overview of each paper. In addition to this book's appeal for specialists and microeconomists, it offers immediately practical ideas and methods for shaping public policy. In fact, one of the papers in this volume, "The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap," helped to spur new legislation that reformed laws on pension distribution.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784909703321

Autore

Burgtorf Jochen

Titolo

The debate on the Trial of the Templars, 1307-1314 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jochen Burgtorf, Paul Crawford, Helen Nicholson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010

ISBN

1-315-61534-7

1-317-03631-X

1-317-03630-1

1-282-70144-4

9786612701443

1-4094-1009-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurgtorfJochen

CrawfordPaul

NicholsonHelen

Disciplina

345.44/0288

Soggetti

Trials (Heresy) - France

Trials (Heresy) - Europe - History

Inquisition - Europe - History

Hospitalers - History - To 1500

Military religious orders - History - To 1500

Grail - Legends - History and criticism



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Maps; Preface; Introduction; Part IBefore the Trial; Part IIThe Trial in France; Part IIIThe Trial in the Iberian Peninsula; Part IV The Trial in the British Isles; Part VThe Trial in Other Countries; Part VIGeneral Aspects and the Aftermath; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

In October 1307, all the brothers of the military-religious order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy and other crimes. In 1312, Pope Clement V, at the Council of Vienne, dissolved the order. Seven centuries later there is still hot debate about the causes of this notorious affair, its course, and its aftermath. This book collects the research of both junior and senior scholars from around the world to establish the current state of scholarship and identify areas for new research. Individual chapters examine the background to the