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Empowering Workers: The Privatization of Social Security in Chile – by José Piñera

The specter of bankrupt state-run pension systems is haunting the world. The pay-as-you-go pension system has a fundamental flaw, one rooted in a false conception of how human beings behave: it destroys, at the individual level, the essential link between effort and reward. Whenever that happens on a massive scale and for a long period of time, the result is disaster.

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US: Unleashing Workers’ Capital: Lessons from Chile – by Fred Smith & Ivan Osorio

Remember the looming Social Security crisis? If you don’t, you’re not alone. The credit crisis and economic downturn have monopolized public attention to such an extent that the Social Security crisis that was at the center of the policy debate during President George W. Bush’s second term now seems forgotten. This is unfortunate, for not [...]

Public Policy Papers

• * Integrated Disability and Retirement Systems in Chile - by Estelle James & Augusto Iglesias (PDF)
• * The Bull by the Horns: The battle for Chile's Social Security Reform - by Jose Piñera (PDF)
• * Chile's AFP System: Myths and Realities - The Chilean AFP Association (PDF)
• * How the Power of Ideas Can Transform a Country - by Jose Piñera (PDF)
• * Econopower: How A New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World by Mark Skousen (PDF)
• * Chile's Pension System - by John Tierney (PDF)
• * The Economic Modernization of Chile - Libertad y Desarrollo (PDF)
• * Chile: Private Solutions to Public Problems - by Cristian Larroulet (Editor) (PDF)
• * How Chile Successfully Transformed Its Economy - by Hernan Buchi Buc (PDF)
• * Latin America Owes a Lot to Its “Chicago Boys”- by Gary S. Becker (PDF)