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debunking the science that makes life dismal

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An edition of Economics for the rest of us (2010)

Economics for the rest of us

debunking the science that makes life dismal

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English
Pages
217

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Economics for the rest of us: debunking the science that makes life dismal
2010, New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York, [Jackson, Tenn.]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330
Library of Congress
HB71 .A235 2010, HB71.A235 2009

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Pagination
xix, 217 p. :
Number of pages
217

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24487213M
Internet Archive
economicsforrest0000adle
ISBN 10
1595581014
ISBN 13
9781595581013
LCCN
2009024968
OCLC/WorldCat
320803607

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OL15529988W

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