David Kingman explores the interaction between poor returns on private pensions and intergenerational unfairness in the housing market
Category: Taxation
Pensions and intergenerational justice: who cares?
Angus Hanton explores why so few of the younger generation are prepared to invest sensibly in their old age
How much are we willing to sacrifice for the future?
Martha Bicket, a postgraduate student at Imperial College London, asks, when it comes to discount rates, how low can we go?
The light taxation of wealthy pensioners
Angus Hanton argues that tax changes could ease the burden of meeting increasing costs as the population ages
Intergenerational Accounting in the UK
Angus Hanton explains why the UK needs to start looking at its assets and liabilities from an intergenerational perspective
Calculating the cost: the consequences of excessive optimism in projections of economic growth
David Kingman argues that current assessments for spending on the aged as a percentage of GDP are flawed, and unfair to future generations. The cost of future liabilities is often expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), i.e. how much of the country’s economic output they are projected to be worth. However, this… Read more »
Are defence cuts an intergenerational issue?
David Kingman asks whether Britain will have to cut into its defence budget as the population ages – and would this be fair on future generations?
Inflation and its intergenerational impact
Angus Hanton looks at the pros and cons of rising inflation, and its effects on interest rates Inflation is now running at about 5% pa, with interest rates standing at below 1%. The result is that, when you take account of inflation, real interest rates are negative, so that savers are seeing their savings reduced… Read more »
Jilted Generation: a student’s view
Sam Desborough explains why he was gripped by Jilted Generation, and why he thinks it should be required reading for fellow students The blurb for Jilted Generation describes it as a work of ‘irresistible polemical energy’ and this proves to be a most apt summary of Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s writing.
Intergenerational issues in Japan
David Kingman describes the fallout from a swelling elderly population Japan is the world’s fastest ageing country, making it a good case-study for the type of intergenerational issues that could emerge in Britain as our own population gets older.