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

XIX, 217 S.

Ill., graph. Darst.

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

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 -- It is not Pareto efficient : the rich pay too much taxes -- Private goods -- Government-supplied goods -- The classical theory of wages -- The neo-classical theory of wages : John Bate 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 -- Wages, executive compensation, profits, and team production -- Immigration and wages : an introduction -- Immigration and immigrants : key figures -- The effect of immigration on wages -- The empirical evidence -- Policy responses to immigration.

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