Sweden’s self-correcting pay-as-you-go pension system
Sweden has a reputation for providing expensive cradle-to-grave social welfare protection, but in 1998 the country put in place a public pension reform more conservative than most of the plans now sponsored throughout the industrialized West. The 1998 reform imposed a budget constraint on pension spending that is enforced automatically, without the need for further approval by the Swedish parliament. As a result, while other countries with advanced economies, including the U.S., are still grappling with large unfunded public...