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Prof Andrew J Scott CBE

Global macroeconomist, Professor at London Business School and Principal Scientist (Economics), Ellison Institute of Technology-Oxford. Andrew’s research, writing, advisory work and speaking focuses on helping individuals, organisations and governments adapt to long run changes driven by demography and technology. In particular, how do we respond to an ageing population by creating a longevity society.

“Superb”

-Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Longevity Imperative

Runner up for the FT/Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024

Past progress created longer lives. Future progress has to be about making the most of this additional time by changing how we age. The Longevity Imperative outlines the required changes in our health system, the economy and the financial sector and cultural and political shifts needed to ensure life isn’t just longer but also healthier, productive and engaged for longer.

Print length

366 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

14 Mar 2024

Researcher

Andrew’s recent academic work focuses on the economics of longevity and ageing. How long can we expect to live for? Are we ageing better? What are the economic gains to healthy longevity? How can we support working for longer? These and a range of related issues are covered in his recent and current research.

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NBER: Baby Busts and Growth Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy

Nature Ageing asks a range of longevity experts about the development of the field 5 years since the journal launched

Journal of Economics of Ageing: The macroeconomic impact of chronic disease in the United Kingdom

Journal of Economics of Ageing: Introduction to Special Issue: The Economics of Ageing

Scientific American: The Healthspan Economy

A Bayesian Model of Later Life Mortality Trends and Implications for Longevity

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Annual Review of Economics: On the Limits of Chronological Age

Tony Blaire Institute Andrew Scott Preventative

Prosperity Through Health: The Macroeconomic Case for Investing in Preventative Health Care in the UK

The Lancet Healthy Longevity: The Longevity Society

Release of conference magazine Longevity Dividend: The economics of healthier, longer and more productive lives

Journal of Economics of Ageing: Healthy Ageing Trends in England Between 2002 to 2018 : Improving but Slowing and Unequal*

Journal of the Economics of Ageing: The economics of longevity – An introduction

CSH Perspectives: International Gains to Achieving Healthy Longevity

Journal of the Economics of Ageing: The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs

The Lancet Healthy Longevity: The Longevity Economy

The Lancet Healthy Longevity: A timely call to establish an international convention on the rights of older people

Nature Aging: “The economic value of targeting aging”

Working Life: Labour Supply, Ageing and Longevity

Nature Aging: Achieving a three-dimensional longevity dividend

UN Paper: Older Persons and the Post-Covid-19 Agenda

IMF Finance & Development article “The Long, Good Life”

“A Longevity Dividend versus an Ageing Society” in David Bloom “Live Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations” CEPR VoxEU

Funding The Great War and the Beginning of the End for British Hegemony (with Martin Ellison and Tom Sargent)

Managing the UK National Debt 1694-2018 accepted for publication American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

“Government Debt : The long and the short of it” accepted for publication in Review of Economics Studies

The Longevity Dividend and the need to avoid chronological measures of age

From an ageing to a longevity society

There is much talk of an ageing society and the rising number of older people. We have to focus also on a longevity society and adjust to the realities of longer lives. An ageing society begins when there are lots of people aged over 65. A longevity society begins when there are lots of people who can expect to live beyond 65.