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New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation's foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program both from its projected financial problems and from those who would destroy the program in order to save it. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2004, the Social Security debate has moved to the center of the domestic policy agenda. In this updated edition of Saving Social Security, the authors analyze the Bush Administration's proposal for individual accounts and discuss the so-called "price indexing" proposal to restore long-term solvency through changing how initial benefits would be calculated. Soc ial Security is essis essential reading for policymakers involved in reform, analysts, students, and all those interested in the fate of this safeguard of American lives. "An honest, transparent and comprehensive approach to making the much needed reforms to the Social Security program."—Journal of Pensions, Economics, and Finance
"Very accessible presentation of facts, analysis of underlying problems, comparison of opinions, and argument for proposed reforms."—Future Survey Exhaustively researched and deeply entrenched in practical issues and mathematical calculations... a highly recommended ray of hope against a looming national crisis." —Wisconsin Bookwatch "Diamond and Orszag bring some welcome realism and decency to the debate."—Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate in Economics
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- Published on: 2006-05-25
- Released on: 2006-05-25
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""This book should be read by all of those interested in the future of Social Security. It is the definitive defense of the collective approach to Social Security that the United States has pursued successfully for the last sixty-five years, and it provides important ideas that will figure prominently in future debates as Social Security reform inevitably returns to the top of our national agenda."" —Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary of the Treasury, 1999–2001
"In their well-written and thought-provoking book, Diamond and Orszag convincingly argue that sound reform will require a balance of benefit reductions and revenue enhancements, while paying special attention to those who are most in need of the social insurance that Social Security provides. Although I favor a different type of reform, Saving Social Security is a must-read for those who want to understand the roots of the Social Security crisis and potential strategies for long-term reform. " —Fred Goldberg, Commissioner of the IRS, 1989–1992
"Proposes a reform plan for America's social security system that would save it both from its financial problems and those who would do away with it.... Exhaustively researched and deeply entrenched in practical issues and mathematical calculations... a highly recommended ray of hope against a looming national crisis." — Wisconsin Bookwatch, 7/1/2004
"Written by two of the most influential thinkers in the Social Security community, this book makes an extremely important contribution to the field by filling in the details of one of the main approaches to reforming the US underfunded public pension plan. The Diamond Orszag plan serves the useful purpose of illustrating what it would take to make the Social Security system structurally sound while keeping it primarily pay-as-you-go. The authors should be given credit for not only restoring balance, but also making the program structurally sustainable an important objective that most other non-account plans fail to achieve. Whether one agrees with reform plan or not, what is most important is that this book contains an honest, transparent and comprehensive approach to making the much needed reforms to the Social Security program. For this reason alone, it deserves serious consideration. I hope that it will improve the tenor of the discussion, and it would certainly be unwise to underestimate the impact this book will have on the ongoing Social Security reform debate." —Maya C. MacGuineas, Executive Director, New America Foundation, Journal of Pensions, Economics, and Finance, 7/1/2004
"In their new book, Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (Brookings Institution Press), for example, Peter A. Diamond of M.I.T. and Peter R. Orszag of the Brookings Institution outline a plan to preserve the best elements of sensible reforms, like indexing benefits to rising life expectancy and collecting some payroll taxes above the earnings cap." —Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University, The New York Times, 2/5/2004
"When members of Congress get serious about fixing Social Security, they should begin by reading this book, instead of appointing another commission." —Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"There is no shortage of plans to reform Social Security. Diamond and Orszag present another plan, but it is a plan that bears careful study from all in the Social Security debate. For one thing, the Diamond-Orszag plan really does reform, not replace, Social Security. For another, there is no reliance on financial gimmicks, transfers out of the general budget, or presumed (but not guaranteed) excess returns on stock market investments. For a third, it factors significant recent changes in the income distribution into its reform plan. The book makes a notable contribution to the Social Security debate, and should be required reading for all aspiring Social Security reformers. " —Edward Gramlich, Chair of the 1994–96 Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security
"The debate about reforming Social Security has become increasingly ideological. Scare tactics and unrealistic promises have become the norm. Diamond and Orszag bring some welcome realism and decency to the debate. They show exactly where the current system is strained, and they suggest concrete ways to strengthen and improve it with the least possible disruption to the lives of future workers and beneficiaries, especially the most vulnerable among them. There is no magic here, just the kind of honesty and common sense you would want from a really good mechanic." —Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate in Economics
"This book should be read by all of those interested in the future of Social Security. It is the definitive defense of the collective approach to Social Security that the United States has pursued successfully for the last sixty-five years, and it provides important ideas that will figure prominently in future debates as Social Security reform inevitably returns to the top of our national agenda. " —Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary of the Treasury, 1999–2001
About the Author
Peter A. Diamond is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His recent books include Social Security Reform, The 1999 Lindahl Lectures (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security: The 2000 Munich Lectures(MIT Press, 2002). He is a former president of both the American Economic Association and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Peter R. Orszag is director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under President Obama. His previous positions include director of the Congressional Budget Office and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a research professor at Georgetown University and a codirector of the Tax Policy Center. He served as special assistant to the president for economic policy during the Clinton administration.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A highly recommended ray of hope
By Midwest Book Review
Written by the chair of the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a former special assistant to the president for economic policy during the Clinton administration, Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach Proposes a reform plan for America's social security system that would save it from both its financial problems and those who would do away with it. Focusing on means that promote long-term balance and sustainable solvency, while protecting the program's benefits for the disabled, low earners, widows, and young survivors. Exhaustively researched and deeply entrenched in practical issues and mathematical calculations, Saving Social Security is a highly recommended ray of hope against a looming national crisis.
14 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Only Balanced on the High End
By S. Mathys
First, the good things. This text gives a general understanding of how the 75-year projection has gone from on-balance in 1983 to off-balance in 2003, it provides many examples of possible errors in the system, and it gives good recommendations to the current system to enhance the ability of Social Security to remain in balance once it has been restored, namely things like adjusting retiree benefits for changes in expected life span over and above projected changes and including a universal legacy charge which does not eliminate the legacy cost but, rather, creates a stable legacy cost over time such that the cost of the system is being borne by all rather than only one generation (ours!). These earn the book 4 stars.
The authors state in chapter 3 their five goals for Social Security reform: "restor[e] Social Security to a sound financial footing, reduc[e] the future burden from Social Security on the rest of the Federal Budget, shar[e] the ongoing costs of the program's past generosity in a fair manner, preserv[e] and strenghten the program's social insurnace function,s and ensur[e] that, on balance, the changes enhance the overall performance of the economy." Given that the current 75-year projection by the Office of the Chief Actuary now shows a 1.9% of payroll imbalance, the authors contend that this imbalance should be corrected by not just revenue increases (higher payroll taxes, new estate taxes, or a non-renewal of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts) or benefit reductions, but both. In fact, this is the type of balance they propose - that all parties should share in the costs of the system equally. This "all parties" mentality leads them to include those state and local government workers currently not covered by the program, but conveniently (or maybe politically correctly) leads them to EXCLUDE all current retirees and near-retirees (those retiring in the next 10 years or so). The "all parties" mentality also belies their obvious disdain for the higher-earning cohorts of the country, in that many of the balance reforms do not balance reductions in benefits across all earnings groups with tax increases across those same groups, but mostly balances the increased revenue from taxing higher-wage earners more with decreasing benefits to those same high-wage earners through incrasing the "progressivity" of benefits. Such inconsistency in comparing apples to apples (for example, continually discussing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and options to reinstate those taxes as revenues dedicated to Social Security, when in fact these tax cuts are outside the scope of Social Security, and should have stayed there throughout the whole text) as the authors like to say they are doing causes them to lose 2 stars.
Overall, this book provides both positive analysis and negative inclusion of meaningless comparison. It is good for background to understand what the dilemma is truly about, but their whole package will probably not be, and should not be, implemented, though certain specific parts are appropriate.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
speak with intelligence about social security issues.
By J.B. Farrell
I may disagree with the suggested solutions, however they do a fabulous job of explaining the issues and challenges pertaining to our nation's social security program.
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