Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Firouz Gahvari of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reviews “International Perspectives on Social Security Reform” by Rudolph G. Penner,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Six papers and twelve comments, originally presented at an Urban Institute conference held in February 2006, examine social security reform in six OECD countries. Papers discuss Canada (Real Bouchard); Sweden (Agneta Kruse and Edward Palmer); Japan (Tetsuo Kabe); Germany (Michael Mersmann); the United Kingdom (Alex Beer); and Italy (Alicia Puente Cackley, Tom Moscovitch, and Benjamin Pfeiffer). Penner is Senior Fellow and holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public policy at the Urban Institute. Index.”