Redesigning Social Security

by Horst Siebert (Editor)

Based on a conference held in the summer of 1997, Redesigning Social Security presents the papers of many leading international scholars in a discussion of the flaws of present social security systems, most of which are established on a pay-as-you-go basis. Expert case studies of programs in Germany, the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Chile provide important grounding for a lengthy review of such questions Are the systems sustainable in the next fifty years as society ages dramatically? What can be learned from countries that have already reformed their systems? If the systems will be reformed, how will capital formation and employment be influenced? If the present system is to be replaced by a capital-funded system, how could the transition problems be handled? The volume concludes with its assessment of necessary reforms.Students and scholars of welfare economics and international organizations and universities will find Redesigning Social Security not only a I timely but also a significant resource for the ongoing debates about social security.

350 pages, Hardcover