Framing the social security debate : values, politics, and economics
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Framing the social security debate : values, politics, and economics
National Academy of Social Insurance : distributed worldwide by Brookings Institution Press, c1998
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Note
Papers presented at the tenth annual conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, held in Washington D.C., on Jan. 29-30, 1998
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Alicia H. Munnell
- A framework for considering social security reform / Michael J. Boskin
- The economics of social security reform / Peter A. Diamond
- A political science perspective on social security reform / Hugh Heclo
- Employers and individuals must do more today to allow retirement tomorrow / Dallas L. Salisbury
- Individual uncertainty in retirement income planning under different public pension regimes / Lawrence H. Thompson
- Would a privatized social security system really pay a higher rate of return? / John Geanakoplos, Olivia Mitchell, and Stephen P. Zeldes
- Insuring against the consequences of widowhood in a reformed social security system / Karen C. Holden and Cathleen Zick
- The politics of pensions : lessons from abroad / R. Kent Weaver
- Investing public money in private markets : what are the right questions? / Theodore J. Angelis
- Myths and misunderstandings about public opinion toward social security / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro
- The political feasibility of social security reform / R. Douglas Arnold
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security. This annual volume of the National Academy of Social Insurance provides a framework for that debate. Competing reform proposals reflect contrasting views about the nature of the Social Security problem and how to solve it. This book examines issues about privatization, national savings and economic growth, the political risks and realities in reforms, lessons from private pensions developments in the United States, and the efforts of other advanced industrial countries to adapt their old-age pensions to an aging population. It also poses philosophical arguments about collective versus individual responsibility and the implications of market risks and political risks for stable and secure retirement income policy. The contributors are Theo Angelis, Michael J. Boskin, Peter A. Diamond, John Geanakoplos, Hugh Heclo, Karen C. Holden, Howell Jackson, Olivia Mitchell, Dallas L. Salisbury, Lawrence H. Thompson, Kent Weaver, and Stephen P. Zeldes. Copublished with the National Academy of Social Insurance
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