The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years

by Steven A. Sass and Pension Reseach Council

The private pension is a curiosity in the modern economic environment. Why do profit-seeking companies pay retirement benefits to those no longer on the job? In this new institutional history, Steven Sass explores the rise and growth of the financial support system that today commands trillions of dollars of investment capital and supports hundreds of thousands of older Americans.

Before 1900 America's elderly derived their livelihood from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674945204
• ISBN13: 9780674945203
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"