1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971998503321

Titolo

Analyses in the economics of aging / / edited by David Wise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005

ISBN

9786611126148

9781281126146

1281126144

9780226903217

0226903214

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 p.)

Collana

NBER conference report

Altri autori (Persone)

WiseDavid A

Disciplina

305.26

Soggetti

Aging - Economic aspects

Older people - Economic conditions

Older people - United States - Economic conditions

Retirement income

Older people - Medical care - Costs

Medicare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona in May 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts -- 2. Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults -- 3. Characterizing the Experiences of High-Cost Users in Medicare -- 4. The Efficiency of Medicare -- 5. Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability -- 6. Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines -- 7. Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events -- 8. Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Trajectories of Health, Wealth, and Living Arrangements among the Oldest Old -- 9. Institutions and Saving for Retirement: Comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands -- 10. Household Saving in Germany: Results of the First SAVE Study -- 11. Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India -- 12. Individual Subjective Survival Curves --



Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of health, wealth, and living arrangements over the life course. Keeping with the global tradition of previous volumes, Analyses in the Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight of widows in India. Carefully compiled and containing some of the most cutting-edge research and analysis available, this volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement behaviors.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973214003321

Autore

Nettl Bruno

Titolo

Becoming an ethnomusicologist : a miscellany of influences / / Bruno Nettl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Scarecrow Press, , 2013

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2025

ISBN

979-88-8184-082-2

1-299-38778-0

0-8108-8698-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities

Disciplina

780.89

Soggetti

Ethnomusicologists

Ethnomusicology

Biography: general

Education

Theory of music & musicology

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

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter One: My Mother, the Pianist; The Schumann Fantasie; Mozart's D-Minor Concerto, No. 20; Victor Ullmann's Sonatas; Novák's Sonata Eroica; Bach's "Capriccio"; Smetana's "Chicken"; Chapter Two: George Herzog and the Study of Native American Music; A Comparative Musicologist; The Ecology of Herzog's Researches; The Major Articles; Conclusion; Chapter Three: Studying Anthropology at Indiana University, 1949 to 1953; Inspired by Statistics and Maps; He Was a Polymath, but He Couldn't Teach ApesHow to Talk

A Teacher Too Few of Today's StudentsWould RecognizeThe Dean and Occasional Folksinger; Chapter Four: Teachers in the Field; You Can't Be a Member of This Nation WithoutKnowing Its Songs; To Sing the Right Song; The Nightingale Does Not Repeat Itself; The Legend Lives On; Conclusion; Chapter Five: Remembering Paul Nettl-Free Associations; A Little Night Music, or the Family Composer; The Magic Flute; Kertzinger's Branle; The Battle of Kosovo; "Auf dem Pripetschek"; The



"Catalog Aria"; From Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3-"Air,"for Strings and the Gavotte; Haydn's Anthem for the Emperor

"Sleepers, Awake!"Die schöne Müllerin; "The Academic Festival Overture"; "The Moldau," and a Song About a Fox; The Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Gamelan Angklung; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; "Das Lied von der Erde"; "The Third Rasoumovsky Quartet"; The Reformation Symphony; The Spring Sonata; Mozart's "Violet"; Citations; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist.