Generational Equity Debate

John B. Williamson is professor of sociology at Boston College, and has written extensively in the areas of aging policy and politics. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Aging and Public Policy and The Politics of Aging.Diane M. Watts-Roy, former director of the Alzheimer's Respite Program in LaGrange, Kentucky, is currently a doctoral student in sociology at Boston College.Eric R. Kingson, a professor of social work at Syracuse University, is the author or coauthor of five books on the economic, social, and political consequences of population aging.

• Part I Introduction 1 Framing the Generational Equity Debate, by John B. Williamson and Diane Watts-Roy Part II The Generational Equity Frame 2 How Will America Pay for the Retirement of the Baby Boom Generation?, by Peter G. Peterson 3 Generational Equity and the Birth of a Revolutionary Class, by Lester C. Thurow 4 Generational Justice and Generational Accounting, by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 5 Care for the Elderly: What About Our Children?, by Richard D. Lamm 6 Age-Based Rationing of Medical Care, by Daniel Callahan Part III The Generational Interdependence Frame 7 America Can Afford to Grow Old, by Alicia H. Munnell 8 Social Security and the Myth of the Entitlement "Crisis", by Jill Quadagno 9 Scapegoating the Old: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Health Care Rationing, by Robert H. Binstock 10 Social Security and the Politics of Generational Conflict, by Theodore Marmor, Fay Lomax Cook, and Stephen Scher 11 Why Privatizing Social Security is a Bad Idea, by Eric R. Kingson and John B. Williamson Part IV Voices from Generation X 12 Third Millennium Declaration Third Millennium 13 Agenda 2000 2030 Center