Can America Afford to Grow Old?

Henry Aaron; Barry P. Bosworth; Gary Burtless

doi:10.5771/9780815707165

Summary

Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-0043-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-0716-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 144
Product type: Book Titles

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1. Baby Boom, Baby Bust No access
2. Burdens of an Aging Population No access
3. Perceptions of Social Security and Medicare No access
4. Financing Social Security and Medicare No access
5. Examining the Effects of Alternative Policies No access
1. Historical Background No access
2. The Social Security Benefit Formula No access
3. Economic Effects No access
1. The Actuaries' Long-Range Projections No access
2. Social Security Balance: Past and Future No access
3. The Threat to Close Actuarial Balance No access
4. The Outlook Including Medicare No access
5. Summary No access
1. A Model of Economic Growth No access
2. The Benefits of Increased Saving: An Illustration No access
3. Private Saving No access
4. Labor Supply No access
5. Alternative Baseline Assumptions No access
1. The Effects of Accumulating Reserves No access
2. Reducing the Burden on Future Generations No access
1. Financial Markets No access
2. Investing Social Security Reserves No access
3. Summary No access
1. Privatization No access
2. Budget Accounting No access
3. Policy Recommendations No access
1. 1. Demographic Assumptions No access
  2. Economic Assumptions No access
  3. Effects on Actuarial Balance No access
2. 1. Representation of Social Security No access
  2. Foreign Investment No access
  3. Demographics and Private Saving No access
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