Overview : issues and options for an aging population / David I. Shactman and Stuart H. Altman -- An international perspective on policies for an aging society / Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise -- Budget estimates : what we know, what we can't know, and why it matters / Henry J. Aaron --...

The domestic landscape / Michael J. Boskin -- In brief : spending / George P. Shultz -- Entitlements and the budget / John F. Cogan -- A blueprint for tax reform / Michael J. Boskin -- Transformational health care reform / Scott W. Atlas -- Reforming regulation / Michael J. Boskin -- National...

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to...