Pensions
Reconstructing Retirement
Work and Welfare in the UK and USA
This assessment of the prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners interested in the late careers and the future of retirement.
Rethinking Financial Behaviour
Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life
UK and US pension policy expects consistently informed decision-making in finance. Deviating from this is often deemed “irrational”, ignoring uncontrollable factors in individuals’ lives.
Challenging existing policy approaches, this book proposes a fresh perspective on rationality when it comes to financial policy and practices.
Dealing in Uncertainty
Insurance in the Age of Finance
This book conducts an in-depth investigation of one of the largest and longest-established insurance industries in Europe: British life insurance. The author draws on over 40 oral history interviews to trace how the sector is changed since the 1970s, a period characterised by rampant financialisation and neoliberalisation.