On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future

Peterson, Peter G., and Howe, Neil

ISBN 10: 155815003X / ISBN 13: 9781558150034

Published by ICS Press, Place_Pub: San Francisco, CA, 1988

About this Item

24 cm, 430, figures, tables, footnotes, notes, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Describes, in great detail and with compelling logic, how America finances our enormous entitlement programs through deficits instead of paying for them as we go and saving for the future.

Seller Inventory # 34234

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future
• Publisher: ICS Press, Place_Pub: San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155815003X
• ISBN 13: 9781558150034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First? Edition. First? Printing.
• Condition: good, good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health Care

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Synopsis

Clears up misconceptions about entitlement spending, argues that it will become an overwhelming burden on future workers

About the Author

Peter G. Peterson is chairman and co-founder of The Blackstone Group. He is chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, founding chairman of the Institute for International Economics (Washington, D.C.), founding president of The Concord Coalition, and co-chair of The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprises.