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| The baby boomers and the price of personal freedom | | Author(s) | Will Hutton |
| Journal title | The Observer, 22nd August 2010, (The New Review section p10), August 2010 |
| Publisher | London, August 2010 |
| Pages | 6 pp |
| Source | Download from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/22/baby... |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; 60-64 age group ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Economics. |
| Annotation | As the postwar baby boomer generation begins to enter comfortable retirement, their children face a future of massive debt and uncertainty. Born in 1950, the author is guilty of being "the quintessential baby boomer", but he has some sympathy with the views in some recent "anti-boomer" books. He notes some of the events that have influenced the cultural, economic, political and social institutions since the 1950s. He identifies how student politics and hippies in 1968 led to "the futile confusion of the 1970s, the certainties of Thatcherism and the great mindless credit-induced boom of the 1990s and 2000s". He concludes that if capitalism and market economics cannot create jobs and prosperity, the restiveness of the younger generation is likely to increase. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100827240 A |
| Classmark | SE: BBC: TOB: W * |
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