origins of the ownership society
Subtitle: how the defined contribution paradigm changed America
By: Edward A. Zelinsky.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195339352
Subjects: Social security -- Law and legislation -- United States; Social security individual investment accounts -- United States; Retirement income -- United States; Internal revenue law -- United States; Spendings tax -- Law and legislation -- United States; Taxation of articles of consumption -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How are they different? the defined benefit and defined contribution formats contrasted as a matter of plan design; title: Why does it matter? allocating risk and  reward between employer and employee; title: How did It Happen?; title: Why did it happen? and why social security accounts didn't; title: What does it mean? consumption taxation,  tax expenditures, and the future of the internal revenue code; title: What is the future of the defined contribution paradigm?; title: What should we do?