Social Philosophy and Policy

Table of Contents - 1997 - Volume 14, Issue 02  

Research Article

Privatization of Social Security: The Transition Issue

Peter J. Ferraraa1

a1 Economics, Americans for Tax Reform

The possible privatization of Social Security has long been a matter of theoretical interest to those who ideologically favor free markets and maximum personal autonomy. But in the spirit of an age when the Berlin Wall fell and the totalitarian Soviet empire collapsed through a peaceful revolution from within, the politics of Social Security has been remade in recent years in a similarly dramatic fashion.