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Economics for the rest of us : debunking the science that makes life dismal / Moshe Adler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Moshe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Income distribution.
- Wages.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.
- Contents:
- Income equality : the earliest standard of efficiency
- Equality does not matter : Pareto efficiency and the free market
- The Pareto efficiency cops
- Why redistributing goods may be Pareto efficient after all
- A brief history of the federal income tax
- It is not Pareto efficient : the rich pay too much taxes (or, Laffer's napkin)
- Private goods
- Government-supplied goods
- The classical theory of wages
- The neo-classical theory of wages : John Bates Clark
- The evidence
- The minimum wage
- Theories of wages and the Great Depression
- "Sticky wages "
- "Efficiency wages", or, Why unemployment is the fault of shirking by workers
- Executive compensation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781595581013
- 1595581014
- OCLC:
- 320803607
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