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SCOUT· 25%59m·2026-09-30·HistoryAn Ageing World: The Problem of Gerontocracy
Past Present Future · 331
In today’s episode for our series about living in ageing societies, David talks to historian and legal scholar Samuel Moyn about the problem of gerontocracy, aka the rule of the old. Why do older generations now have so much wealth and so much power? Why is this particularly true in the United States? Is the real…
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