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Towards an international political economy of ageing
— 25th volume celebration paper | | Author(s) | Alan Walker |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 25, part 6, November 2005 |
| Pages | pp 815-839 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Economics ; Poverty ; International. |
| Annotation | Alan Walker's "Towards a political economy of old age" was published in Volume 1 of Ageing and Society (part 1, pp 73-94). The present article mirrors it, and is an initial scoping exercise for a research agenda on the international political economy of ageing. It begins with a brief review of the various critiques of the political economy perspective over the 25 years since the first article. Remarkable for its absence has been criticism of the neglect of an explicit international perspective. The author argues that it is not globalisation per se that is problematic, but its dominant neo-liberal economic form. It is mainly because of this globalisation and the related growth in the power of international governmental organisations, such as the World Bank, that an international political economy of ageing is required. Most of the article is devoted to an outline of the eight key elements that might comprise a theoretical and empirical research agenda for social gerontology. These key elements are: global inequality in old age; development and ageing; globalisation and the power of international governmental organisations; transnational corporations; the nation state; supra-national regional structures; the United Nations (UN); and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In the spirit of the other articles that have celebrated the journal's 25th anniversary, this paper is intended to stimulate scientific debate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051125001 A |
| Classmark | TY: W: W6: 72 |
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