Privatizing Social Security (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

Martin Feldstein (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0226241017 / ISBN 13: 9780226241012

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1998

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Top corner of free front endpaper has former ownership name of a Harvard University economics professor; otherwise book is bright and fresh. x, 471 p. [b 327].

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Privatizing Social Security (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)
• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226241017
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226241012
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts.

"Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." --Library Journal

"[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."--Timothy Taylor, Public Interest

À propos de l?auteur

Martin Feldstein (1939-2019) was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 1977 to 2008 he was president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. In 2006 he was appointed to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under George W. Bush, and in 2009 he was named to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board by Barack Obama. He was the editor of many books published by the University of Chicago Press.