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Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute Professor and a nationally recognized expert on Social Security, will discuss Social Security Reform Wednesday, March 30, at the U of M. The talk will be held at the Fogelman Executive Center, Room 136, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Diamond has been a member of a number of panels for the US government since 1974. He was chair of the Panel on Privatization of Social Security of the National Academy of Social Insurance from 1996-98, whose report, Issues in Privatizing Social Security, has been published by MIT Press. He has consulted about social security of the World Bank and has written about social security in China, Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden as well as the US. His recent books are Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security, Social Security Reform, and Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (with Peter R. Orszag).

This event is sponsored by the Morris Chair of Excellence, the Economic Club of Memphis, the economics department and the Center for Economic Education.

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