Saving Social Security A Balanced Approach

Peter A. Diamond is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His recent books include "Social Security Reform, The 1999 Lindahl Lectures" (Oxford University Press, 2002) and "Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security: The 2000 Munich Lectures"(MIT Press, 2002). He is a former president of both the American Economic Association and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Peter R. Orszag is director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under President Obama. His previous positions include director of the Congressional Budget Office and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a research professor at Georgetown University and a codirector of the Tax Policy Center. He served as special assistant to the president for economic policy during the Clinton administration.