This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that … enormous investment fees associated with it. I propose that the deconstruction of public pensions is part of a larger effort to …

Social Security privatization, in any form, will only highlight the problems that individuals face when left on their …

This paper uses the theory of ‘capital as power’ to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be ‘reformed’ because they are ‘under funded’, I argue that … enormous investment fees associated with it. I propose that the deconstruction of public pensions is part of a larger effort to …

Definitions can matter, and Don Fullerton and Michael Geruso argue that proponents of social security privatization … mean a host of different things by "privatization." They point out that many of the gains from privatization seen by … economists like Martin Feldstein and Laurence Kotlikoff owe to only a few aspects of privatization. …

Social Security privatization, in any form, will only highlight the problems that individuals face when left on their …

performances stimulated financial optimism and legitimized what is commonly known as pension privatization (diverting contributions … in his 1999 State of the Union address. Although pension privatization appeared as the most debated policy alternative in …

-sector model, leading to a different conclusion about the desirability of unfunded pensions. …