The predictable surprise : the unraveling of the U.S. retirement system.

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Author / Creator:Schieber, Sylvester J.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (477 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123004
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ISBN:9780199890965
019989096X
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9780199890958
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on 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.
Other form:Print version: Schieber, Sylvester J. Predictable surprise. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199890958