Making Sense of Social Security Reform

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Basic Building Blocks: Social Security Taxes and Benefits
3. Social Security as a System of Forced Saving and Limited Portfolio Choice Plus or Minus a Transfer
4. Social Security and Social Insurance
5. The Social Security Trust Fund: The Economics of Funding and the Politics of Accounting
6. Traditionalist Social Security Reform Proposals
7. Proposals to "Privatize" Social Security
8. A Modest Proposal: Progressive Privatization
Notes
Bibliography
Index