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What If Boomers Can't Retire?
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What If Boomers Can't Retire?

by Thornton Parker, Hazel Henderson
November 2002
Beginner
288 pages
6h 33m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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PART IIIGuiding the Future—Yours and Society’s

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IN PART III, OUR CONCENTRATION SHIFTS from the problems to what individuals and organizations can do to provide for a sustainable future. We concentrate on the fifth message of the book: Individuals and organizations can help prevent retirement plans and the economy as a whole from collapsing—or protect themselves in case there is a collapse—by creating real wealth based on work, earnings, and solid accomplishments instead of just hopes. But doing this requires a different mindset that includes new values, goals, and ways of thinking about living, aging, investing, and running companies.

Our emphasis changes, also. We examine some technical ideas and how they might work, but they are not mere ...

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