The U. S. System of Social Security: Emphatically Not a Ponzi Scheme

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 161-168

  Skidmore, Max J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ponzi scheme; pyramid scheme; social insurance; Social Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053487750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1138     Document Type: Article

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