Economics for the rest of us, debunking the science that makes life dismal, Moshe Adler
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Economics for the rest of us, debunking the science that makes life dismal, Moshe Adler
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Includes bibliographical references
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non fiction
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Economics for the rest of us
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bibliography
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Moshe Adler
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debunking the science that makes life dismal
Summary
Argueshat contemporary economic theories, particularly those concerning efficiency and wages, favor the rich over the poor, and that there are better, more just options
Table Of 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
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