The Share Project

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Today is Sunday and I still seem to be having technical difficulties posting on AFOE, so I’m doing this as a test to see whether I can mange to do something on AFEM.

Firstly a link from the Economist Great Thrift Supplement (of which I’ll have more to say as and when I can post again) lead me to discover this conference on the economics of ageing which is being held in Venice from the 6th to 8th of October 2005.

Looking through the agenda and participants, I discovered that Axel Börsch-Supan is presenting a session based on data from the SHARE survey. SHARE is a Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and you can find a complete book-length summary of the most recent findings at the top of the publications list.

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About Edward Hugh

Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".