Neil Howe

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Neil Howe
Born (1951-10-21) October 21, 1951 (age 72)
UC Berkeley, Yale University
OccupationWriter
Known forGenerational theory in collaboration with William Strauss
FamilyRobert Julius Trumpler (grandfather)

Neil Howe (born October 21, 1951) is an American author and consultant. He is best known for his work with William Strauss on social generations regarding a theorized generational cycle in American history. Howe is currently the managing director of demography at Hedgeye and he is president of Saeculum Research and LifeCourse Associates, consulting companies he founded with Strauss to apply Strauss–Howe generational theory. He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Aging Initiative, and a senior advisor to the Concord Coalition.

Biography

Howe was born in

UC Berkeley in 1972. He studied abroad in France and Germany, and later earned graduate degrees in economics (MA, 1978) and history (MPhil, 1979) from Yale University.[1]

After receiving his degrees, Howe worked in

Blackstone Group, policy advisor to the Concord Coalition, and senior associate for the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).[2][3]

During the 1990s, Howe developed a second career as an author, historian and pop sociologist,

Strauss and Howe founded LifeCourse Associates, a publishing
, speaking, and consulting company built on their generational theory. As president of LifeCourse, Howe currently provides marketing, personnel, and government affairs consulting to corporate and nonprofit clients, and writes and speaks about the collective personalities of today's generations.

Howe lives in Great Falls, Virginia, and has two grown children.[citation needed]

Work

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Howe and Strauss on Generations, April 14, 1991, C-SPAN
video icon Discussion with Howe and Strauss on The Fourth Turning, April 17, 1998, C-SPAN

Howe has written a number of non-academic books on generational trends. He is best known for his books with William Strauss on generations in American history. These include

White House Chief Strategist.[8]

Howe and Strauss also co-authored 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (1993) about

Chronicle of Higher Education.[citation needed] Michael Lind offered his critique of Howe's book Generations for The New York Times Book Review.[7][11]

Howe has written a number of application-oriented books with Strauss about the Millennials’ impact on various sectors, including Millennials Go to College (2003, 2007), Millennials and the Pop Culture (2006), and Millennials and K-12 Schools (2008). After Strauss died in 2007, Howe authored Millennials in the Workplace (2010).[12]

In 1988, he coauthored On Borrowed Time with Peter G. Peterson, one of the early calls for budgetary reform (the book was reissued 2004). Since the late 1990s, Howe has also coauthored a number of academic studies published by CSIS, including the Global Aging Initiative’s "Aging Vulnerability Index" and The Graying of the Middle Kingdom: The Economics and Demographics of Retirement Policy in China. In 2008, he co-authored The Graying of the Great Powers with Richard Jackson.[12]

Selected bibliography

  • On Borrowed Time (1988)
  • Generations (1991)
  • 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (1993)
  • The Fourth Turning (1997)
  • Global Aging: The Challenge of the Next Millennium (1999)
  • Millennials Rising (2000)
  • The 2003 Aging Vulnerability Index (2003)
  • Millennials Go To College (2003, 2007)
  • The Graying of the Middle Kingdom (2004)
  • Millennials and the Pop Culture (2005)
  • Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods (2006)
  • Millennials and K-12 Schools (2008)
  • The Graying of the Great Powers (2008)
  • Millennials in the Workplace (2010)
  • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End (2023)[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Howe, Neil. "Profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ISBN 978-0-89206-532-5
    .
  3. ^ "Neil Howe". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original on 2010-10-08. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  5. ISBN 0-688-08133-9
    .
  6. ISBN 0-7679-0046-4
    .
  7. ^ a b Hoover, Eric (2009-10-11). "The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions". The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
  8. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (9 April 2017). "Bannon's Views Can Be Traced to a Book That Warns, 'Winter Is Coming'". The New York Times. p. A20. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  9. ISBN 0-679-74365-0
    .
  10. ISBN 0-375-70719-0
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  11. ^ Michael Lind (January 26, 1997). "Generation Gaps". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  12. ^
    ISBN 978-0-9712606-4-1
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  13. ISBN 978-1-9821-7373-9
    .

External links
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