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The Old - Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities: The 1996 Bowles Symposium

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  • Introduction to the Symposium: The Graying of the Developed World–The Actuarial Challenge
  • By James C. Hickman
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  • In Defense of Pay–as–You–Go (Paygo) Financing of Social Security†
  • By Robert Brown
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  • Touching the Third Rail: Alternative Solutions for Bringing the Social Security Retirement System into Long–Term Balance
  • By Richard V. Burkhauser
  • Discussion by Bruce D. Schobel
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  • Demographics and Medicare
  • By Richard S. Foster
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  • Methods for the Analysis of CCRC Data‡
  • By Bruce L. Jones
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  • The Proposals of the Advisory Council on Social Security: Not Only Undesirable but Also Impossible of Enactment
  • By Robert J. Myers
  • Discussion by Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski
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  • The Changing Social Contract: Implications for Financial Security Systems
  • By Anna M. Rappaport
  • Discussion by Richard V. Burkhauser
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  • A Long–Term–Care Status Transition Model
  • By Jim Robinson
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  • Declining Adequacy of Social Security Retirement Benefits
  • By Bruce D. Schobel
  • Discussion by Richard V. Burkhauser
  • Discussion by Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski
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  • Demography and State Pensions: Mainly the United Kingdom Experience 1975-95
  • By Andrew G. Young
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  • OASDI and the Future Economic and Social Environment
  • By Howard Young