Social Security and Its Discontents: Perspectives on Choice [NOOK Book]

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For more than 25 years the Cato Institute has led the debate for Social Security reform, arguing that the program is fundamentally flawed and calling for greater freedom and choice for working Americans. Social Security and Its Discontents represents the best of Cato’s publications on the issue. It includes essays by the nation’s top economists and Social Security experts, discussing Social Security’s finances; the urgent need for reform; how the program treats women, minorities, and low-income workers; and the ...
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Overview

For more than 25 years the Cato Institute has led the debate for Social Security reform, arguing that the program is fundamentally flawed and calling for greater freedom and choice for working Americans. Social Security and Its Discontents represents the best of Cato’s publications on the issue. It includes essays by the nation’s top economists and Social Security experts, discussing Social Security’s finances; the urgent need for reform; how the program treats women, minorities, and low-income workers; and the options for reform.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933995748
  • Publisher: Cato Institute
  • Publication date: 4/23/2004
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 220
  • File size: 7 MB

Meet the Author

A Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. He is the author of several books, including, The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society, and the coauthor of A New Deal for Social Security.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Reengineering social security for the 21st century 13
2 The trust fund, the surplus, and the real social security problem 37
3 "Saving" social security is not enough 53
4 Property rights : the hidden issue of social security reform 69
5 Private investment of social security : the $10 trillion opportunity 81
6 The moral case for a market-based retirement system 89
7 Social security choices for the 21st-century woman 111
8 The impact of social security reform on low-income workers 133
9 Disparate impact : social security and African Americans 147
10 No second best : the unappetizing alternatives to individual accounts 165
11 Empowering workers : the privatization of social security in Chile 189
12 Perspectives on the President's commission to strengthen social security 201
13 The 6.2 percent solution : a plan for reforming social security 281
14 Speaking the truth about social security reform 309
15 Administration costs and the relative efficiency of public and private social security systems 313
16 Personal accounts in a down market : how recent stock market declines affect the social security reform debate 333
17 Public opinion and private accounts : measuring risk and confidence in rethinking social security 357
Contributors 371
Index 373
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