The elderly golfer is putting money back into the economy if it is his/her money. One of the problems with the ageing population is the potential strain it will put on the welfare state if people are not self-supporting. This will result (continuing the elderly golfer theme) in effective state subsidies of Golf courses.
Paul
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Thank you all for the interesting and helpful comments. Following some of these up will be one of my tasks over Christmas. BTW I asked the question out of genuine curiosity, I don't think we should be looking for economic arguments to defend the interests and status of older people, we all know where such lines of argument might lead.
The older chap playing golf is interesting; presumably he is putting some money into the local economy, employing people in and around the club house and consuming what ever golf-goods golf-players consume? If he never played golf or took any other exercise he might go early to a cardiac intensive care (and intensive cost) unit. I've never seen the point of golf but it obviously has all sort of values beyond 'spoiling a country walk'. So no, the elderly golfer is not completely useless!
Robert
Professor Robert Moore
School of Sociology and Social Policy
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The University of Liverpool
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