Research Catalog

Title

Saving Social security : a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag.

Author

Diamond, Peter A.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Orszag, Peter R.

Description

viii, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Social security > United States
• Retirement income > Government policy > United States
• Old age pensions > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A brief overview of Social Security -- Goals for Social Security reform -- Social Security's long-term deficit -- A balanced three-part plan to shore up Social Security -- Strengthening Social Security's effectiveness as social insurance -- Implications of our reform plan for benefits and revenue -- Individual accounts -- Questions and answers about our balanced reform plan -- Conclusions -- Appendixes: A. Social Security and national saving -- B. Trends in retirement age -- C. How the legacy debt arose: A simplified example -- D. Characteristics of tax-favored defined-contribution plans -- E. Should the trust fund invest in the stock market? -- F. Comparisons with models 2 and 3 of the President's Commission -- G. Memorandum from the Office of the Chief Actuary.

Call Number

JBE 04-1238

ISBN

0815718381 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003022639

OCLC

53231957

Author

Diamond, Peter A.

Title

Saving Social security : a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Orszag, Peter R.

Research Call Number

JBE 04-1238