Product Description: Written by a leading scholar in the field, this textbook provides a thorough introduction to the topic of income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on the issues of inequality and discrimination.Features an empirical flavor throughout and includes optional econometric studiesWill appeal to a broad range of readers in various subject areas including economics, sociology, political science, and public administrationInternational in its scopeCan be used as a self-contained course on income distribution and povert...read more

Product Description: This book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II and its relation to the economic surplus, capital accumulation, and economic growth. Unproductive activities broadly consist of those involved in the circulation process, including wholesaling and retailing, banking and financial services, advertising, legal services, business services and many (though not all) government activities...read more

Product Description: This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay...read more

Product Description: 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 changes in the U.S. and global economy triggered this phenomenon. Little research has been done on the underlying causes of downsizing...read more

Product Description: Throughout the 1990s the US expanded its lead over other advanced industrial nations in terms of conventionally measured per capita income. However, it is not clear that welfare levels in America have grown concomitantly with per capita income, or that Americans are necessarily better off than citizens of other advanced countries...read more

Product Description: A revised and expanded edition of the shocking study that changed the way we think of wealth in America. A work that sparked widespread controversy when it was first published, Top Heavy is acclaimed economist Edward N. Wolff's eloquent presentation of the facts of wealth inequality in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text provides an anthology of many of the leading papers on productivity analysis. Growth accounting and the development of product functions is covered by classic papers from Robert Solow, Dale Jorgenson, Edward Denison, and Angus Maddison...read more

Product Description: This text serves as a self-contained course on income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on issues of discrimination. Sections of the book revisit microeconomics and basic statistics. Also includes considerable detail on the role of labor markets as a source of income differences among individuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This comprehensive study is a collection of original articles that view the current state of knowledge of the convergence hypothesis. The hypothesis asserts that at least since the Second World War, and perhaps for a considerable period before that, the group of industrial countries was growing increasingly homogeneous in terms of levels of productivity, technology and per capita incomes...read more

Product Description: The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented rise in inequality and poverty in the US, despite an economic expansion that began in 1983. The papers collected in this volume explore differing manifestations including poverty rates that remained unexpectedly high over the period, the shrinkage of the middle class, a growing intergenerational wealth gap, a widening of the earnings gap between the college educated and the high school graduate and an increasing dispersion of the distribution of family income, despite the increased labour force participation of women...read more

Product Description: David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a deindustrialized United States is on the road to secondrate status in the global marketplace and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic. Their systematic and empirical investigation of the mechanisms through which countries like Japan and Germany have caught up with the United States in terms of productivity and standard of living will inform public debate about which government policies are likely to improve a nation's competitiveness...read more

Product Description: Looking at six major countries--the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Sweden, and West Germany--this volume presents the most recent research on inequality in household wealth. Among the findings reported are the gradual but steady decline in the degree of wealth inequality among households during this century, the persistently high concentration of wealth today in a small percentage of households, and the effects that retirement systems have had in equalizing wealth holdings...read more