Private military and security companies: Legal, moral and social implications

Military veterans and Social Security.

There are 9.4 million military veterans receiving Social Security benefits, which means that almost one out of every four adult Social Security beneficiaries has served in the United States military. In addition, veterans and their families make up almost 40 percent of the adult Social Security beneficiary population. Policymakers are particularly interested in military veterans and their famil...

Contemporary Security and Private Security Companies: Privatization of Security and Consequences

With the end of the Cold War and the corresponding shift in military doctrine, the structure and deployment of national armed forces, as well as the core change in comprehension of (inter-)/national security and (inter-)/national security threats, the role of private security providers gained a new momentum. The increased involvement of private military security companies in the provision of pr...

The Portfolio Implications of Adding Social Security Private Account Options

Rumi's epistemology and implications for moral education

From its very beginnings, man has always been a curious and inquisitive creature looking for goals to reach him, but what a destination is, where it is, and who it is has been an important issue that makes people more curious and purposeful. He believes that the structure of human beliefs is shaped by his moral characteristics and that the moral contaminants of human knowledge are distorted. Th...

Social security and private saving: another look.

In May 1978, the Social Security Bulletin published an article, “Effect of Social Security on Saving: Review of Studies Using U.S. Time-Series Data,” by Louis Esposito, Division of Economic and Long-Range Studies, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration. The author reviewed four major empirical studies that investigated the effect of the social security program on aggr...