Includes bibliographical references and index.

Framing the generational equity debate / John R. Williamson and Diane M. Watts-Roy -- How will America pay for the retirement of the Baby Boom generation? / Peter G. Peterson -- Generational equity and the birth of a revolutionary class / Lester C. Thurow -- Generational justice and generational accounting / Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff -- Care for the elderly: what about our children? / Richard D. Lamm -- Age-based rationing of medical care / Daniel Callahan -- America can afford to grow old / Alicia H. Munnell -- Social security and the myth of the entitlement "crisis" / Jill Quadagno -- Scapegoating the old: intergenerational equity and age-based health care rationing / Robert H. Binstock -- Social security and the politics of generational conflict / Theodore Marmor, Fay Lomax Cook, and Stephen Scher -- Why privatizing social security is a bad idea / Eric R. Kingson and John B. Williamson -- Third Millennium declaration / Third Millennium -- Agenda 2000 / 2030 Center.