TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adler,Moshe
TI  - Economics for the rest of us: debunking the science that makes life dismal 
SN  - 9781595581013 :
AV  - HB71 .A235 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, [Jackson, Tenn.]
PB  - New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution
KW  - Economics
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Wages
N1  - 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
ER  -