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Someday All This Will Be Yours A History of Inheritance and Old Age

Hendrik Hartog

We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home,...

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Freakonomics Radio

It examined inheritance disputes from the 19th century, highlighting the use of inheritance as a tool to ensure care for aging parents and the complexities of family financial obligations.

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I'm the author of several books, but most recently, Someday All This Will Be Yours, a History of Inheritance and Old Age.

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It examined inheritance disputes from the 19th century, highlighting the use of inheritance as a tool to ensure care for aging parents and the complexities of family financial obligations.

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I'm the author of several books, but most recently, Someday All This Will Be Yours, a History of Inheritance and Old Age.

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