Róbert Iván Gál

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People in all post-hunter–gatherer societies face a fundamental life cycle consumption financing problem: productivity is concentrated in mid-life, but consumption is spread more uniformly over the life cycle [1]. In early and late life, we therefore generally consume more resources than we produce, while the opposite holds true in mid-life. There are few individual or market solutions to this life cycle consumption financing problem.