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An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis
Volume 3 Number 2, Fall 1983

Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform?

James A Dorn
Introduction: Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform?
(PDF, 24 pp., 875 Kb)

James M. Buchanan
Social Security Survival: A Public-Choice Perspective
(PDF, 32 pp., 740 Kb)

Comment by Mancur Olson

Carolyn L. Weaver
The Economics and Politics of the Emergence of Social Security: Some Implications for Reform
(PDF, 32 pp., 1,204 Kb)

Comment by Edgar K. Browning
Comment by Edward J. Harpham

Paul Craig Roberts
Social Security: Myths and Realiies
(PDF, 9 pp., 348 Kb)

A. Haeworth Robertson
The National Commission’s Failure to Achieve Real Reform
(PDF, 14 pp., 519 Kb)

Anthony Pellechio and Gordon Goodfellow
Individual Gains and Losses from Social Security before and after the 1983 Amendments
(PDF, 26 pp., 864 Kb)

Thomas J, DiLorenzo
A Constitutionalist Approach to Social Security Reform
(PDF, 22 pp., 858 Kb)

Comment by Rudolph G. Penner

Richard B. McKenzie
Social Security: The Absence of Lasting Reform
(PDF, 20 pp., 736 Kb)

Comment by Joseph A. Pechman
Comment by Colin D. Campbell

David Ranson
Criteria for Reforming Social Security
(PDF, 23 pp., 698 Kb)

Comment by A. Haeworth Robertson

Roger W. Garrison
Misdirection of Labor and Capital under Social Security
(PDF, 23 pp., 915 Kb)

Comment by Gary T. Burtless

Norman B, Ture
Supply-Side Effects of Social Insurance
(PDF, 10 pp., 399 Kb)

Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis
Achieving Social Security Reform: A “Leninist” Strategy
(PDF, 15 pp., 587 Kb)

Comment by Marilyn B. Flowers

John C. Goodman
Private Alternatives to SociM Security: The Experience of Other Countries
(PDF, 17 pp., 599 Kb)

Comment by Don Bellante

Richard E. Wagner
Funded Social Security: Collective and Private Options
(PDF, 28 pp., 1,143 Kb)

Comment by Roger Pilon

Peter J. Ferrara
The Prospect of Real Reform
(PDF, 13 pp., 479 Kb)

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