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Economics for the rest of us, debunking the science that makes life dismal, Moshe Adler

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Economics for the rest of us, debunking the science that makes life dismal, Moshe Adler

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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illustrations

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

Economics for the rest of us

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bibliography

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320803607

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Moshe Adler

Sub title

debunking the science that makes life dismal

Table Of Contents

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

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