Pensions, social security, and the privatization of risk
By: [edited by] Mitchell A. Orenstein.
Contributors: Orenstein, Mitchell A.
Series: The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780231146944; 9780231146951; 9780231519274
Subjects: Old age pensions -- United States; Pension trusts -- United States; Social security -- United States; Privatization -- United States
Description: As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. Orenstein and his colleagues Burtless, Ghilarducci, and Munnell argue that any reform of the U.S. pension system must address both future imbalances in the Social Security program and weaknesses in the workplace and individual retirement systems on which a growing number of Americans now rely. Weighing what is gained against what is lost as new proposals surface, this book offers an account and an analysis of the looming crisis, as well as our collective alternatives both domestically and abroad. From publisher description.