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Invoking the Invisible Hand : Social Security and the Privatization Debates / Robert Asen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asen, Robert, 1968-
- Series:
- Rhetoric and public affairs series.
- Rhetoric and public affairs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social security individual investment accounts--United States.
- Social security individual investment accounts.
- Privatization--United States.
- Privatization.
- Social security--Government policy--United States.
- Social security.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Policy polysemy and the 1935 social security debates
- Competing metaphors of insurance and investment
- Representing target populations
- Reconstructing a time for reform
- Going public with privatization.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781609174996
- 1609174992
- OCLC:
- 889235670
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31779 hdl
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