Research Catalog

Title

Should the United States privatize Social Security? / Henry J. Aaron and John B. Shoven ; edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman.

Author

Aaron, Henry J.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Shoven, John B.
• Friedman, Benjamin M.
• Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy (2nd : 1998 : Harvard University)

Description

xii, 178 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

The two papers that make up the core of this book address a fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security, whether to shift, in part or entirely, from today's pay-as-you-go system to one in which individuals retain control over the investment of their funds and therefore personally bear the associated risk. John Shoven argues yes, Henry Aaron no.

Subject

• Social security > United States > Congresses
• Privatization > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, Harvard University."
• Papers and discussion from the Second Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, held at Harvard University on April 27, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

John B. Shoven -- Henry J. Aaron -- Robert J. Barro -- David M. Cutler -- Alicia H. Munnell -- James Tobin.

ISBN

0262011743 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^99012010^

OCLC

• 40610674
• SCSB-9935649

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library