Thornton Parker

What If Boomers Can't Retire? (eBook, ePUB)

How to Build Real Security, Not Phantom Wealth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, prices have declined, corporations have shifted their emphasis from inflating stocks to just surviving, and there is currently a recession in full swing. This book shows that there is a bright side, however. If enough boomers work in their later years and preserve their capital, and if the country improves the way it uses capital, the results can lead to fuller lives for millions of people, healthier communities, and more sustainable economies worldwide. Parker details specific actions that individuals and organizations can take to gradually make the shift from the dangerously risky pursuit of phantom wealth to productive investments based on real accomplishments, goods, and services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609944056
• Artikelnr.: 38331884

Autorenporträt

Thornton Parker

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Hazel Henderson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beware of Phantom Wealth
Part I: Baby Boomers and Their Retirement Plans
Chapter 1: Social Security: The Tip of the Retirement Iceberg
Chapter 2: Can Stocks Help Baby Boomers Retire?
Chapter 3: Views from Eight Other Books
Chapter 4: How Baby Boomers’ Later Years Will Unfold
Part II: Phantom Wealth and Its Effects
Chapter 5: Stocks, Wealth, and Phantom Wealth
Chapter 6: The Drive to Create Phantom Wealth
Chapter 7: Why Stock Prices Don’t Create Real Wealth
Chapter 8: How Phantom Wealth Hurts the Economy
Part III: Guiding the Future--Yours and Society’s
Chapter 9: How We Can Meet Our Real Needs
Chapter 10: What Individuals Can Do
Chapter 11: What Organizations Can Do
Chapter 12: Conclusion: How to Change a Very Big System
Appendixes
Notes
Glossary
Index
About the Author