TY - BOOK AU - Adler,Moshe TI - Economics for the rest of us : debunking the science that makes life dismal SN - 9781595586414 U1 - 330 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - New Press 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 UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018928682&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -