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Few people understand the current Social Security system in even its broadest outlines. And yet Social Security reform is ranked among the most important social issues of our time. With this text, Daniel Shaviro makes a contribution to the public understanding of the issues involved in reforming Social Security. His book describes the system and the pressures that have been brought to bear upon it, before dissecting and evaluating the various reform proposals.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49786750238993,"sku":"CIN0226751171G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226751171.jpg?v=1750940869"},{"product_id":"do-deficits-matter-book-daniel-shaviro-9780226751122","title":"Do Deficits Matter?","description":"Politicians and the media blame the deficit for economic ills ranging from high interest rates to low economic growth, but little attention is paid to the reasons for such effects. Uniting the various strands of economic, legal and political analysis of deficits in order to lay the foundations for rational public debate, the author shows that the deficit statistics usually published have little economic content. They ignore taxpayers and the recipients of benefits, and since they only look at current cash flow, deficit statistics ignore long-term trends such as pending Social Security and Medicare insolvency. Nevertheless, Shaviro believes that deficits matter because they have generational and macroeconomic consequences. He argues that it is hard to tell whether these consequences are good or bad, since this depends on future economic conditions impossible to predict. Moreover, even if deficits contribute to excessive government spending, a balanced budget amendment is likely to prove ineffective or even counterproductive. 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Through perceptive close readings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, among others, he not only demonstrates how these accounts are still relevant today, but how they can illuminate our understanding of our current situation and broaden our own perspective beyond the merely economic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056201728273,"sku":"NIN9781839981777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52479285887249,"sku":"NLS9781839981777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1839981776.jpg?v=1750930087"},{"product_id":"bonfires-of-the-american-dream-in-american-rhetoric-literature-and-film-book-daniel-shaviro-9781839983825","title":"Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film","description":"How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, the American Dream’s seeming to suggest, falsely, that those who succeed economically are “winners,” while the rest of us are “losers,” puts it in dire conflict with our traditions of democracy and egalitarianism. In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056277422353,"sku":"NIN9781839983825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52431492841745,"sku":"NLS9781839983825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1839983825.jpg?v=1751248477"},{"product_id":"literature-and-inequality-book-daniel-shaviro-9781785273667","title":"Literature and Inequality","description":"The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. 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Yes and no, says Daniel Shaviro in this political and economic study. Yes, because fiscal policy affects generational distribution, national saving, and the level of government spending. And no, because the deficit is an inaccurate measure with little economic content. This book provides an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to know exactly what is at stake for Americans in this ongoing debate.  \"[An] excellent, comprehensive, and illuminating book. Its analysis, deftly integrating considerations of economics, law, politics, and philosophy, brings the issues of 'balanced budgets,' national saving, and intergenerational equity out of the area of religious crusades and into an arena of reason. . . . A magnificent, judicious, and balanced treatment. It should be read and studied not just by specialists in fiscal policy but by all those in the economic and political community.\"—Robert Eisner, Journal of Economic Literature  \"Shaviro's history, economics, and political analysis are right on the mark. For all readers.\"—Library Journal","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52765810917649,"sku":"NGR9780226751139","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780226751139.jpg?v=1763642726"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-daniel-shaviro.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}