WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 859

*** JORN HENRIK PETERSEN, KLAUS PETERSEN (Eds.): The Politics of Age. Basic Pension Systems in a Comparative and Historical Perspective. Peter Lang (1 Moosstrasse, Postfach 350, CH-2542 Pieterlen. Tel: [phone] - Fax: [phone] - email: [e-mail] - Internet: www.peterlang.com). 2009, 225 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-58191-9.

It is now clear to common mortals that the problem of how to pay for people's retirement pensions is a time-bomb that is ticking away relentlessly and about to go...