Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

Edited by Mitchell A. Orenstein

Paper, 138 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14695-1
$18.00 / £12.50

May, 2009
Cloth, 138 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14694-4
$55.00 / £38.00

Contents

Introduction

Mitchell A. Orenstein

Chapter One

Retirements at Risk

Alicia H. Munnell

Chapter Two

Expanding Participation in America’s Workplace Retirement System

Gary Burtless

Chapter Three

Financial Market Turbulence and Social Security Reform

Gary Burtless

Chapter Four

The Plan to Save American Workers’ Retirements

Chapter Five

Learning from International Experience

Mitchell A. Orenstein

List of Contributors

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Business
• Economics & Finance

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Mitchell A. Orenstein is S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at the Washington, D.C.-based Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform.

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