Framing the social security debate
Subtitle: values, politics, and economics
By: R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz, Alicia H. Munnell, editors.
Contributors: Arnold, R. Douglas, 1950-; Graetz, Michael J.; Munnell, Alicia Haydock.; National Academy of Social Insurance (U.S.). Conference
Publisher: National Academy of Social Insurance; Distributed worldwide by Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Social security -- United States -- Congresses.
Description: Competing reform proposals reflect contrasting views about the nature of the Social Security problem and how to solve it. This book examines issues about privatization, national savings and economic growth, the political risks and realities in reforms, lessons from private pension developments in the United States, and the efforts of other advanced industrial countries to adapt their old-age pensions to an aging population.

It also poses philosophical arguments about collective versus individual responsibility and the implications of market risks and political risks for stable and secure retirement income policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the tenth annual conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, held in Washington D.C., on Jan. 29-30, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alice H. Munnell; title: Values, politics, and economics in social security reform. A framework for considering social security reform / Michael J. Boskin; title: The economics of social security reform / Peter A. Diamond; title: A political science perspective on social security reform / Hugh Heclo; title: Penions and savings : in what form? / Dallas L. Salisbury; title: Defined contribution plans : risky business for plan participant / Regina T. Jefferson (discussant); title: Questionable model for social security. Social security : in what form? Individual uncertainty in retirement income planning under different public pension regimes / Lawrence H. Thompson; title: Would privatized social security system really pay a higher rate of return? / John Geanakoplos, Olivia Mitchell, and Stephen P. Zeldes; title: Insuring against the consequences of widowhood in a reformed social security system / Karen C. Holden; title: Comments / Sylvester J. Schieber (discussant); title: Comments / Henry J. Aaron (discussant); title: Insights from social security reform abroad. The politics of pensions : lessons from abroad / R. Kent Weaver; title: The pension reform process in the United Kingdom / Richard Disney (discussant); title: Reforming public pension / John Myles (discussant); title: Social security pension reforms in Germany / Winfried Schmähl (discussant); title: The Canadian experience / David Walker (discussant); title: Public investment in private markets. Investing public money in private markets : what are the right questions? / Theodore J. Angelis; title: Comments / Warren L. Batts (discussant); title: Comments / Francis X. Cavanaugh (discussant); title: Regulatory problems in privatizing social / Howell E. Jackson (discussant); title: Comments / Ian Lanoff (discussant); title: Public opinion and the politics of reforming social security; title: Myths and misunderstandings about public opinion toward social security : knowledge, support, and reformism; title: The political feasibility of social security reform / R. Douglas Arnold.