Cato Institute Books About Social Security Choice

A New Deal for Social Security

by Peter J. Ferrara and Michael D. Tanner
(1998/232 pp.)

This book traces Social Security from its inception to its current crisis, showing that the program's problems are the result of a fundamental flaw in its design. Ferrara and Tanner then offer an alternative -- a retirement system based on saving and investment. (Read more about this book.)

Social Security: Prospects for Real Reform

Edited by Peter J. Ferrara
(1985/220pp.)

This book details the problems with the Greenspan Commission's reforms, points to disturbing generational trends, and offers a realistic plan for improving America's retirement security. It also contains papers presented at a Cato Institute conference in June of 1983. (Read more about this book.)

Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction

Peter J. Ferrara
(1980/480pp.)

In this comprehensive examination of America's social security system, economist-lawyer Peter J. Ferrara offers a thorough and solid brief against maintaining the present system. He presents conclusive evidence that social security has been sold to the American people by deceit and misrepresentation and that the social security system's financial troubles, far from being ameliorated by recent tax increases, are getting worse by the day because of the demographics of population growth. He analyzes, and finds wanting, the rationales for the system made by some of America's leading economists and social security officials. (Read more about this book.)