Economics for the rest of us
Subtitle: debunking the science that makes life dismal
By: Moshe Adler
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; [Jackson, Tenn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781595581013
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Income equality : the earliest standard of efficiency; title: Equality does not matter : Pareto efficiency and the free market; title: The Pareto efficiency cops; title: Why redistributing goods may be Pareto efficient after all; title: A brief history of the federal income tax; title: It is not Pareto efficient : the rich pay too much taxes (or, Laffer's napkin); title: Private goods; title: Government-supplied goods; title: The classical theory of wages; title: The neo-classical theory of wages : John Bates Clark; title: The evidence; title: The minimum wage; title: Theories of wages and the Great Depression; title: "Sticky wages "; title: "Efficiency wages", or, Why unemployment is the fault of shirking by workers; title: Executive compensation.