It is widely assumed today that the "welfare state" is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subject in most developed countries. In this book, 15 authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the...

In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The...

Durch die demographischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen der letzten Dekaden sind Zweifel an der Tragfähigkeit der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV) laut geworden. Die Rufe nach einer Neugestaltung sind in keinem Zweig der Sozialversicherung so deutlich wie in der GRV. Ökonomische...