MINI-SYMPOSIUM TO TAKE ON SOCIAL SECURITY

On Thursday, April 14, the Department of Economics will host a mini-symposium on one of the most pressing and complex issues of the day. Nationally recognized authorities on Social Security will speak and answer audience questions in Thomas 110 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Theodore Marmor, Professor of Public Policy and Management and Professor of Political Science at the Yale School of Management, will discuss the history of Social Security and the role of the community vs. the role of the individual in the provision of retirement security. In addition to Social Security, Marmor is an expert on Medicare; the second edition of his book The Politics of Medicare has recently been published (Aldine de Gruyter, 2000).

Jerry Mashaw, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will discuss the statistics used by the participants on different sides of the current debate over Social Security reform. Mashaw is the author (along with Michael Graetz) of True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance (Yale University Press, 1999).

The program is free and open to the public; a reception will follow.

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