Privatizing Social Security

Name: Privatizing Social Security
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ISBN: 9780226241029

ISBN-10: 0226241025

ISBN-13: 9780226241029

Edition: 2000

Authors: Martin Feldstein

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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…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

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Preface


Introduction




Country Studies



The Chilean Pension Reform: A Pioneering Program



Comment Stephen P. Zeldes Discussion Summary



Australia's Retirement Income System



Comment John Piggott Discussion Summary



The Roles of the Public and Private Sectors in the U.K. Pension System



Comment Richard Disney Discussion Summary



Pension System Reform: The Mexican Case Carlos Sales-Sarrapy



Comment Aaron Tornell Discussion Summary



The Shift to a Funded Social Security System: The Case of



Comment Anita M. Schwartz Discussion Summary



Privatization Issues for the United States



The Transition Path in Privatizing Social Security



Comment John B. Shoven Discussion Summary



Simulating the Privatization of Social Security in General Equilibrium



Comment Thomas J. Sargent Discussion Summary



Privatizing Social Security: First-Round Effects of a Generic, Voluntary, Privatized U.S. Social Security System



Comment David M. Cutler Discussion Summary



Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving Plans and the Provision of Resources for Retirement



Comment Jack L. VanDerhei Discussion Summary



Administrative Costs in Public and Private Retirement Systems



Comment Sylvester J. Schieber Discussion Summary


Contributors


Author Index


Subject Index