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In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes contemporary debates over proposals to privatize Social Security. Asen argues that a rights-based rhetoric employed by Social Security's original supporters enabled advocates of privatization to align their proposals with the widely held belief that Social Security functions simply as a return on a worker's contributions and that it is not, in fact, a social insurance program. By analyzing major debates over a preeminent American institution, Asen reveals the ways in which language is deployed to identify problems for public policy, craft policy solutions, and promote policies to the populace. He shows how debate participants seek to create favorable contexts for their preferred policies and how they connect these policies to idealized images of the nation.

Hearing about the problem that many Americans will have a shortfall in their retirement incomes. Witnesses: Dennis Stone, owner, Western Mfg. Corp.; Dallas Salisbury, Employer Benefit Research Inst.; Sharon Robinson, dean, Center for Retirement Educ., Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co.; Olena Berg, Pension and Welfare Benefits Admin., U.S. Dept. of Labor. Also, testimony submitted by the Nat. Council of La Raza and by Amer. Savings Ed. Council; statement of Denise Voight Crawford, pres., North Amer. Securities Admin. Assoc.; and the 1998 Small Employer Retirement Survey.

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