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Fighting Poverty in the Us and Europe: A World of Difference

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Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference - Alesina, Alberto, and Glaeser, Edward L
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In this this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continents are in the level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. They discuss various possible economic explanations for the difference, including different levels of pre-tax income, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems ...

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Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference 2006, OUP Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199286102

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Fighting Poverty in the Us and Europe: A World of Difference 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199267668

Hardcover