Pensions Imperilled: The Political Economy of Private Pensions Provision in the UK

by Craig Berry

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses. While population ageing has affected traditional pensions practice, the imperilment of UK pensions is due in fact to the peculiar way policy-makers have responded to wider social and economic change. Pensions are a mechanism for managing failed futures, yet this function is being impeded by the individualization of provision...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198782837
• ISBN13: 9780198782834
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"