Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

The essays in this volume discuss such timely topics as demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics. Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers.

Author: Alan J. Auerbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780521088275

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