abstract:Andrew Alan Samwick is an American economist, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College (since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A.
Martin Feldstein, a pensions expert from Harvard University and a Bush adviser, argues (in a new paper written with AndrewSamwick of Dartmouth College) that diverting 2% of payroll taxes into private accounts would not mean a cut in overall retirement benefits.