If aging doesn’t happen all at once, why should retirement? That’s the question Merryn Somerset Webb explores with economist and author Andrew J Scott in this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money. Click here to listen to the interview.
People are hardwired for short-term thinking, posing a challenge to long-term planning. “We find it difficult to think too far ahead and take steps today that have benefits far into the future,” says Andrew J. Scott, author of the new book “The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support …
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We are living in an era of anxiety – or as Jonathan Haidt, the US social psychologist calls it in his latest book, a “generation of anxiety”. From the global financial crisis to the climate emergency, from Covid to the cost of living, from the war in Ukraine to the conflicts in Israel/Gaza: each of …
Thirty-year-olds should start plotting their retirement. Fifty-year-olds need to make younger friends and 60-year-olds must go back to school. This is according to a book looking at how we can prevent one of humanity’s greatest achievements turning into a nightmare. Andrew Scott, the co-author of The 100-Year Life, is publishing a treatise on 14 March: …
In other words, longer lives are already a reality, and much longer lives are a distinct possibility. In The Longevity Imperative, an important and timely book, Scott argues that we need to take all this a lot more seriously. The imperative, as Scott sees it, is to reshape our world so that as many people …
Financial Times Book Review: Can we really live forever? Read More »
In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old. This startling statistic comes from a remarkable new book, The Longevity Imperative, by Andrew Scott of the London Business School. He notes, too, that a newborn …
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