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Social Security
Jagadeesh Gokhale
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Description for Social Security
Hardcover. Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using outdated methods. This title argues that the program faces insolvency far sooner than previously thought. It examines the forces shaping American demographics and the economy to project their future evolution. Num Pages: 374 pages, 34 line drawings, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far sooner than previously thought. To assess Social Security's fate more accurately under current and alternative policies, Gokhale constructs a detailed simulation of the forces shaping American demographics and the economy to project their future evolution. He then uses this simulation to analyze six prominent Social Security reform packages - two liberal, two centrist, and two conservative - to demonstrate how far they would restore the ... Read more
Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far sooner than previously thought. To assess Social Security's fate more accurately under current and alternative policies, Gokhale constructs a detailed simulation of the forces shaping American demographics and the economy to project their future evolution. He then uses this simulation to analyze six prominent Social Security reform packages - two liberal, two centrist, and two conservative - to demonstrate how far they would restore the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226300337
SKU
V9780226300337
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About Jagadeesh Gokhale
Jagadeesh Gokhale is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities.
Reviews for Social Security
"Social Security is innovative, interesting, and important. Gokhale delivers on the promise in the title, providing a new appraisal of a variety of plans to reform Social Security that will appeal to a wide range of readers, including policy makers in Congress and the White House and economists concerned with retirement income." - Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University"