Misdirection of Labor and Capital Under Social Security/Comment

Garrison takes an Austrian School approach to assessing the economic distortions caused by the US Social Security system. It is shown that the neoclassical approach, which focuses on aggregate distortions in savings and employment, grossly underestimates the effects of Social Security. With the Aust...

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