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Future Boom or Bust?
Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "evil," enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth in...
Understanding wealthโwho has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve itโis crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward W...
Poverty and Income Distribution 2E Written by a leading scholar in the field, this textbook provides a thorough introduction to the topic of income di...
Theory and Evidence
A vast new literature on the sources of economic growth has now accumulated. This book critically reviews the most significant works in this field and...
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Examines the claim that deindustrialization in the US is causing a decline in its competitiveness, especially in view of competition from Germany and ...
Skill, Work, and Inequality
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wid...
This textbook serves as a self-contained course on income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on issues of discrimination. Sections of ...
Was it Beneficial for Workers?
This volume focuses primarily on changes in the U.S. pension system from 1983 to 2009. However, attention is paid to the entire retirement system, inc...
Reality, Causes, and Consequences
In the 1980s and early 1990s, a substantial number of U.S. companies announced major restructuring and downsizing. But we don't know exactly what chan...
The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership
Over the past three decades, average household wealth in the United States has declined among all but the richest families, with a near 80 percent dro...
The Implications of Unbalanced Growth
This paper argues that growth in modern economies is inherently unbalanced because labour productivity grows at different rates in the different occup...
How Much Does Public Consumption Matter for Well-being?
United States, 1989, 1995, 2000, and 2001
Its Persistence in an Expansionary Economy
An Analysis of the Postwar US Economy
This book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II and its relation to the economic surplus, capi...
Reveals that the high level of unproductivity in the U.S. economy since World War II has been a significant factor in the slowdown of growth in the ra...
Our measure of economic well-being is motivated by the conviction that there is substantial room for improving existing official measures of the level...
Who's at the Top of the Economic Ladder?
Is the Gap Closing?
The Role of Technological Change, Computerization, and Structural Change
The Effects of Government Deficits and the 2001-02 Recession on Well-Being
The Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-retire
Economic Well-Being in U. S. Regions and the Red and Blue States