The Predictable Surprise
Unraveling the U.S. Retirement System
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 March 2012
- ISBN 9780199890958
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 234x161x29 mm
- Weight 796 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 black and white line drawings 0
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Short description:
In this book, Sylvester J. Schieber explains how retirement systems work and the implications for various generations of continuing our current course. He explains how the original architecture of Social Security has changed in ways that have led to current concerns about financing and equity of the program, and describes the nuances of retirement planning in an approachable and applicable manner.
MoreLong description:
Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save for their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement crisis have been apparent for decades, but we have never mustered the political will to address the problem. This book explains how we have gotten into the
retirement predicament and where we can go from here. Schieber, a renowned authority on this topic, provides a compact, insightful history of Social Security, pension plans, and other retirement options, highlighting both their original justifications and the point when things began to go wrong. He brings his
discussion right up to the present morass and concludes with suggestions as to how we can reform our retirement system. Our situation is not hopeless, Schieber concludes, if we take on some of these issues and resolve them. If we do not, we will severely jeopardize the prosperity of younger generations.
Outstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012).
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgments
Part 1: Foundations and Fault Lines
1. Retirement USA
2. Early Motivations behind the Pension Movement
Part II: Social Security, the dream and reality
3. Development and Passage of the Social Security Act
4. Early Concerns Prove Nagging and Persistent
5. Moving to Pay-as-You-Go Financing
6. A Deal too Good to Last
7. Operations under Pay-as-You-Go Financing
8. Crisis Reactions: Conflict, Consensus and Surprise
9. Sorting out the Trust Fund Semantics and Realities
10. Policy Stalemate at the Demographic Divide
11. Understanding Social Security in Modern Times
Part III: Employer-based pension provision
12. Employer Pensions Taking Root
13. Growing pains for Private Retirement Plans
14. ERISA: the Transition to a New Regulatory Regime
15. The 1980s, a Decade of Regulatory Schizophrenia
16. Good Intentions Gone Awry
17. Some Good News—or Not
18. The Unfolding of a Predictable Defined Benefit Surprise
19. And Then, a Predictable Defined Contribution Surprise
20. Public pensions: the good, the bad and the ugly
Part IV: Delivering benefits and providing retirement security
21. Retirement Income Security and Workers' Residuals
22. End Game: A Gold Watch, Pat on the Back and More
23. We've Killed the Goose, Let's Gild the Eggs
24. Tax Benefits and Benefit Taxes
25. Retiree Health Benefits: Misfortune or Malpractice
Part V: Truth and consequences
26. The Fellow Behind the Tree
27. Securing the Social Security Foundation
28. Securing Tax-Favored Benefits and Living Standards
29. Remembering the Future
Glossary
