Umfang:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107014039
,
9781139530682
Serie:
Federico Caffe Lectures
Inhalt:
Incorporating the latest results from behavioral economics and microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles argues that conventional economics has mistakenly presented inequality as the price of progress. In place of this view, he offers a novel and optimistic account of the possibility of a more just economy
Anmerkung:
Cover -- The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution -- Series Editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Preface -- 1: The new economics of inequality and redistribution -- Inequality, institutions, and economic performance -- Market failures and state failures -- Is equality passé? -- Conflict and co-ordination -- Conclusion -- 2: The economic cost of wealth inequality -- Credit constraints: evidence -- Borrowers and lenders -- Wealth constraints and credit-market exclusion -- Risk aversion, ownership, and allocative efficiency -- Conclusion -- 3: Feasible egalitarianism in a competitive world -- Globalization -- Increasing wages and employment -- Asset-based redistribution -- Policies -- Conclusion -- 4: Globalization, cultural standardization, and the politics of social insurance -- Globalization: the highest stage of nationalism? -- Cosmopolitans and provincials -- The politics of insurance -- Globalism vs. the welfare state? -- Globalization and institutional convergence -- Optimal specialization? -- Cultural diversity and egalitarian redistribution -- Conclusion -- 5: Reciprocity, altruism, and the politics of redistribution -- The origins of strong reciprocity -- Experimental evidence -- Survey evidence -- Strong reciprocity and the welfare state: unhappy marriage? -- Conclusion -- 6: Conclusion: The new (not so dismal) science of inequality and redistribution -- Appendices -- Notation for derivatives -- Appendix to Chapter 3 -- The model and notation -- Notation -- The no-shirking wage -- Appendix to Chapter 4 -- Appendix to Chapter 5 -- Table 5.1 -- Support for redistribution variable from the Gallup Survey -- Works cited -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Bowles, Samuel The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9781107014039
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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