Carolyn L. Weaver is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and director of AEI's Social Security and Pension Project. She has been a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Economic Department and research associate of the Center for Study of Public Choice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. From 1981 to 1984, she served as professional staff member on social security for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. She also served as a senior adviser to the 1983 National Commission on Social Security Reform and as a member of the 1987-1988 Disability Advisory Committee, and the 1989 Public Trustees’ Working Group on the Measurement of Trust Fund Solvency. She is the author of “Crisis in Social Security: Economic and Political Origins”, as well as many articles on social security and political economy. Ms. Weaver received her Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.