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Acknowledgments
Introduction / Michael Tanner
pt. 1. The crisis
1. Reengineering Social Security for the 21st century / Thomas F. Siems
2. The trust fund, the surplus, and the real Social Security problem / June O'Neill
3. "Saving" Social Security is not enough / Michael Tanner
4. Property rights : the hidden issue of Social Security reform / Charles E. Rounds Jr.
5. Private investment of Social Security : the $10 trillion opportunity / Martin Feldstein
6. The moral case for a market-based retirement system / Daniel Shapiro
pt. 2. Women, the poor, and minorities
7. Social Security choices for the 21st-century woman / Leanne Abdnor
8. The impact of Social Security reform on low-income workers / Jagadeesh Gokhale
9. Disparate impact : Social Security and African Americans / Michael Tanner
pt. 3. Solving the problem
10. No second best : the unappetizing alternatives to individual accounts / Michael Tanner
11. Empowering workers : the privatization of Social Security in Chile / José Piñera
12. Perspectives on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security / Andrew G. Biggs
13. The 6.2 percent solution : a plan for reforming Social Security / Michael Tanner
pt. 4 The tough question
14. Speaking the truth about Social Security reform / Milton Friedman
15. Administration costs and the relative efficiency of public and private Social Security systems / Robert Genetski
16. Personal accounts in a down market : how recent stock market declines affect the Social Security reform debate / Andrew G. Biggs
pt. 5. The Public
17. Public opinion and private accounts : measuring risk and confidence in rethinking Social Security / John Zogby
Contributors
Index.
Introduction / Michael Tanner
pt. 1. The crisis
1. Reengineering Social Security for the 21st century / Thomas F. Siems
2. The trust fund, the surplus, and the real Social Security problem / June O'Neill
3. "Saving" Social Security is not enough / Michael Tanner
4. Property rights : the hidden issue of Social Security reform / Charles E. Rounds Jr.
5. Private investment of Social Security : the $10 trillion opportunity / Martin Feldstein
6. The moral case for a market-based retirement system / Daniel Shapiro
pt. 2. Women, the poor, and minorities
7. Social Security choices for the 21st-century woman / Leanne Abdnor
8. The impact of Social Security reform on low-income workers / Jagadeesh Gokhale
9. Disparate impact : Social Security and African Americans / Michael Tanner
pt. 3. Solving the problem
10. No second best : the unappetizing alternatives to individual accounts / Michael Tanner
11. Empowering workers : the privatization of Social Security in Chile / José Piñera
12. Perspectives on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security / Andrew G. Biggs
13. The 6.2 percent solution : a plan for reforming Social Security / Michael Tanner
pt. 4 The tough question
14. Speaking the truth about Social Security reform / Milton Friedman
15. Administration costs and the relative efficiency of public and private Social Security systems / Robert Genetski
16. Personal accounts in a down market : how recent stock market declines affect the Social Security reform debate / Andrew G. Biggs
pt. 5. The Public
17. Public opinion and private accounts : measuring risk and confidence in rethinking Social Security / John Zogby
Contributors
Index.