"This is a book about the demand for redistribution of income through taxes and transfers. It is also a book about how our main intuition about what affects individual preferences for redistribution (whether a person is rich or poor) needs to be complemented with the consideration of other...

Fast täglich kommen neue Hiobsbotschaften aus der Wirtschaft und vonseiten der Finanzmärkte. Aktien verlieren dramatisch an Wert, Banken brechen zusammen, Unternehmen aller Branchen bauen Mitarbeiter ab. Die aktuelle Finanzmarktkrise hat die größte und schwerwiegendste Rezession seit der...

"We examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This new evidence on the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and poverty...