| The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution Contributor(s): Bowles, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107014034 ISBN-13: 9781107014039 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $84.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Business & Economics | Economics - Microeconomics |
| Dewey: 339.2 |
| LCCN: 2012004203 |
| Series: Federico Caff Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.85 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced in many economies are detrimental to the economy. Moreover, recent economic experiments and other evidence confirm that most citizens are committed to fairness and are willing to sacrifice to help those less fortunate than themselves. Incorporating the latest results from behavioral economics and the new microeconomics of credit and labor markets, Bowles shows that escalating economic disparity is not the unavoidable price of progress. Rather it is policy choice - often a very costly one. Here drawing on his experience both as a policy advisor and an academic economist, he offers an alternative direction, a novel and optimistic account of a more just and better working economy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowles, Samuel: - Samuel Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute. He previously taught economics at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Siena. He is the author, most recently, of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (2004), A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution (2011, with Herbert Gintis) and articles in Science, Nature, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and other academic journals. He has also served as an economic advisor to presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy and Jesse Jackson, and former South African President Nelson Mandela and has taught crash courses in economics to trade unionists, community activists and others. |