Popular Writing

Teresa Ghilarducci
  1. Responding to "THE RISK POOL, What's behind Ireland's economic miracle--and G.M.'s financial crisis?" by MALCOLM GLADWELL in The New Yorker (August 28, 2006 issue).
  2. The Hesburgh Lecture Series, "The Promise and Perils of Social Security: The Attack on Retirement" Presented by Teresa Ghilarducci to the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley on June 23, 2005, and to the Notre Dame Club of San Francisco on June 27, 2005. Power Point presentation.
  3. Congressional Testimony on H.R. 2830, "The Pension Protection Act." Presented by Teresa Ghilarducci to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 15, 2005, in Washington, DC.
  4. The National Erosion of Private Pensions Written testimony from February 7, 2002, before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce.
  5. Whither Employer Pensions? Presented at the Stable Value Investors Annual Meeting, October 11, 2001, Washington, DC.
  6. Private Pensions In America: Where Are We 25 Years After ERISA? (1999)
  7. ERISA at 25: Has the Law Kept Pace with the Evolving Pension and Investment World? Testimony before the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, February 15, 2000.
  8. Lunchtime Debate: Can the Elderly Work Longer? Joseph Quinn and Teresa Ghilarducci at the National Academy of Social Insurance Conference, January 22-23, 2004.
  9. John Paul II and American Workers in the Emerging Fourth World From The Making of an Economic Visions--John Paul II's 'On Social Concern,' Oliver F. Williams, CSC, and John W. Houck, editors. University Press of America, 1991.

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.