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

Title
Saving Social security : a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag.
Author
Diamond, Peter A.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Orszag, Peter R.
Description
xxvi, 294 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Old age pensions > United States
  • Retirement income > Government policy > United States
  • Social security > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-287) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A brief overview of Social Security -- Goals for Social Security reform -- Social Security's long-term deficit -- A three-part plan to shore up Social Security -- Strengthening Social Security's effectiveness as social insurance -- Implications 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 -- H. Long-term analysis of the Diamond-Orszag Social Security plan.
ISBN
  • 9780815718376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0815718373 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005281679
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library