Books
When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them. Princeton University Press. May 2008.
Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions. MIT Press. 1992.
Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets: Lessons from the Operating Engineers Central Pension Fund. With Garth Mangum, Jeffrey S. Petersen, and Peter Philips. Quorum Books. 1995.
Work Options for Older Americans. Co-edited with John Turner. University of Notre Dame Press. 2007.
Books
Biography
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis and the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research as of January 2008. Her new book, When I'm Sixty Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, Princeton University Press, investigates how to revive the promise of retirement to working Americans. Ghilarducci taught economics at the University of Notre Dame for 25 years. > Read More
Recent Journal Entry
The 2008 $168 billion stimulus package is better than it would have been without grants to Social Security receipients. Instead of small amounts of money to each houshold we could have put some money to neighborhood schools, fixed our roads and bridges, and boost our national welath. On another matter here are ten books undergraduates should read before they graduate. Read More....
News
On November 20, 2007, Dr. Ghilarducci participated in the Economic Policy Institute's latest "Agenda for Shared Prosperity" event in Washington, DC. At the event, she unveiled a briefing paper, Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, which outlines her vision for combining the best features of traditional defined-benefit pensions and 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans.