Economics for the rest of us
Subtitle: debunking the science that makes life dismal
By: Moshe Adler.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595581013
Subjects: Economics; Income distribution; Wages
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: It is not Pareto efficient : the rich pay too much taxes; title: Private goods; title: Government-supplied goods; title: The classical theory of wages; title: The neo-classical theory of wages : John Bate 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; title: Wages, executive compensation, profits, and team production; title: Immigration and wages : an introduction; title: Immigration and immigrants : key figures; title: The effect of immigration on wages; title: The empirical evidence; title: Policy responses to immigration.