In the rich world the modern economic problem, the Skidelskys say, is how to live well amid plenty, not how to survive amid scarcity.

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But two themes get particular attention this time: how to live well for less and how to keep what you have earned from the tax collector.

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Pay attention to how you are accumulating wealth and how you are spending it, and you can live as well as you expected to.

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How many of these participants were willing to take a lower paying position for a chance to live somewhere else or to work in a different position and how many knew how to bargain well?

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But rather than relying on the financial markets to turn contributions into fatter pension benefits, notional schemes work on an actuarial formula that takes account of how well the economy has done and how long someone is expected to live.

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So to me, the more important issue is not how long we live, but how well we live.

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And when young adults return to live at home, we need to establish rules as well as time frames for how long stays will last, along with encouraging kids to expand job searches and perhaps take any position until dream jobs come along.

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