This includes the published version of my essay Why and How We Care about Inequality, also available on my webpage. Bryan Caplan was kind enough to cover it positively last week, now you can read the original. I put a draft up on this blog last year, so I won't repeat it all today. As usual, the published version is better.
The rest of the contents:
Chapter 1: Background Facts By James Piereson
Chapter 2: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent By Joshua D. Rauh
Chapter 3: The Economic Determinants of Top Income Inequality By Charles I. Jones
Chapter 4: Intergenerational Mobility and Income Inequality By Jörg L. Spenkuch
Chapter 5: The Effects of Redistribution Policies on Growth and Employment By Casey B. Mulligan
Chapter 6: Income and Wealth in America By Kevin M. Murphy and Emmanuel Saez
Chapter 7: Conclusions and Solutions By John H. Cochrane, Lee E. Ohanian, and George P. Shultz
Chapter 8: Contents by Edward P. Lazear adn George P. Shultz
"Levels and Trends in United States Income and Its Distribution A Crosswalk from Market Income Towards a Comprehensive Haig-Simons Income Approach."Philip Armour, Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore NBER Working Paper No. 19110. Issued in June 2013
ReplyDeletePerhaps people "feel like" there is inequality in their take home pay, but don't appreciate the wealth transfers present in the economy. Like Prf. Cochrane says, is income inequality really that bad? Perhaps also, should we really be arguing about inequality?
This is an excellent book. Evaluates without bias, as Professor Becker always did.
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