What If Boomers Can't Retire?: How to Build Real Security, Not Phantom Wealth

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000 - 259 lappuses
When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, prices have declined, corporations have shifted their emphasis from inflating stocks to just surviving, and there is currently a recession in full swing.
This book shows that there is a bright side, however. If enough boomers work in their later years and preserve their capital, and if the country improves the way it uses capital, the results can lead to fuller lives for millions of people, healthier communities, and more sustainable economies worldwide. Parker details specific actions that individuals and organizations can take to gradually make the shift from the dangerously risky pursuit of phantom wealth to productive investments based on real accomplishments, goods, and services.

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Foreword
ix
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xxi
Beware of Phantom Wealth
1
BABY BOOMERS AND THEIR RETIREMENT PLANS
11
Social Security The Tip of the Retirement Iceberg
13
Can Stocks Help Baby Boomers Retire?
31
Views from Eight Other Books
47
Why Stock Prices Dont Create Real Wealth
108
How Phantom Wealth Hurts the Economy
129
GUIDING THE FUTUREYOURS AND SOCIETYS
147
How We Can Meet Our Real Needs
149
What Individuals Can Do
167
What Organizations Can Do
189
Conclusion How to Change a Very Big System
211
Appendixes
219

How Baby Boomers Later Years Will Unfold
62
PHANTOM WEALTH AND ITS EFFECTS
75
Stocks Wealth and Phantom Wealth
77
The Drive to Create Phantom Wealth
92
Glossary
239
Index
243
About the Author
257
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Most people specialize in one or a few fields and progress up through them in what are often called stovepipes or fence pickets. Thornton (Tip) Parker has done the opposite by deliberately working on tasks that require knowledge of multiple fields. He is a generalist with more than forty-five years of widely diverse government and business experience in management, strategic planning, finance and accounting, manufacturing, marketing, personnel administration, transportation, technology management, large computer and information systems, intergovernmental relations, assistance management, and policy development.

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