Economics for the rest of us : debunking the science that makes life dismal /

Adler, Moshe.

Economics for the rest of us : debunking the science that makes life dismal / Moshe Adler. - New York : New Press, c2010. - xix, 217 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.






Economics.
Income distribution.
Wages.
Economía.
Distribución del ingreso.
Salarios.

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