Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781412804912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 412 str.

John Attarian

Opis

One of today's most important national concerns is the projected bankruptcy of Social Security some time in the next few decades and the resultant inability to pay full benefits on time. It has been said that Social Security is the third rail of American politics-touch it and you die. Consequently, it took over two decades of warnings before it was established as a major domestic concern. In Social Security, now in paperback, John Attarian argues that the major cause of this impasse has been the misleading manner in which the program has been depicted to the public, and the beliefs about Social Security that prevail as a result.

Spis treści

Part 1: Social Security’s Threefold Crisis 1. The Bankruptcy Crisis 2. The Affordability Crisis 3. The Crisis of Confidence Part 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, Part 3: What Now? 11. A Critical Survey of Social Security Reform 12. A Modest Proposal

O autorze

John Attarian