Storrs lectures on the two legged retirement stool…

StorrsLectures – Monday, March 5 and 6

On Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6, 2007, at 4:30 p.m. in the Yale Law SchoolFaculty Lounge, Alicia Munnell, the Peter F. Drucker Chair in ManagementSciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and Director ofthe Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, will deliver the StorrsLectures entitled, “The DecliningNumber of Players in the Retirement Income Game.”  Shewill develop the view that the number of participants in the retirementincome system has dropped from three (formerly government, employers, and theindividual)to two (government and the individual).  She will explain thatthe withdrawal of employers has major implications for government and willput an increasing proportion of older Americans at risk.

Monday’s lecture (March 5), “TheWithdrawal of Business” will describe the evolution of theroles of the three players and document how the withdrawal of employers hasoccurred at a time when the retirement landscape has become more treacherous.In her second lecture on Tuesday (March 6), “TheImplications for the Individual and Government,” she willprovide evidence on how the changing retirement environment will put increasingnumbers at risk, and will discuss steps that government can take to help.