Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates

by Robert Asen

In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes contemporary debates over proposals to privatize Social Security. Asen argues that a rights-based rhetoric employed by Social Security's original supporters enabled advocates of privatization to align their proposals with the widely held belief that Social Security functions simply as a return on a worker's contributions and that it is not, in fact, a social insurance program.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087013843X
• ISBN13: 9780870138430
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"