Social security : false consciousness and crisis /

"One of today's most important national concerns is the projected bankruptcy of Social Security some time in the next few decades and its consequent inability to pay full benefits on time. Yet despite two decades of warnings about this, nothing is being done. The saying that Social Securit...

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Main Author: Attarian, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Social Security's Threefold Crisis
  • 1. The Bankruptcy Crisis
  • 2. The Affordability Crisis
  • 3. The Crisis of Confidence
  • Pt. 2. False Consciousness and the Roots of Crisis
  • 4. The Beginnings
  • 5. Helvering v. Davis
  • 6. Forging a False Consciousness
  • 7. The Curtis Hearings and the Insurance Controversy
  • 8. Flemming v. Nestor, the Amish, and the Power of the Word
  • 9. Shoring Up the False Consciousness
  • 10. Fruits of the False Consciousness: Drift, Evasion, Denial, Paralysis
  • Pt. 3. What Now?
  • 11. A Critical Survey of Social Security Reform
  • 12. A Modest Proposal.