Author: CHURCH, TOM & CHRIS MILLER & JOHN B. TAYLOR
Title: Inequality and Economic Policy Essays in Honor of Gary Becker
Description: Stanford University, California: Hoover Institution Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 081791904X. Tables & Figures; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; xviii, 214 pages; Hard cover is blue with silver lettering on spine. DJ. NEW. Illustrated with b/w tables and figures. 'Gary Stanley Becker ( December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics. Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. Economist Justin Wolfers called him, "the most important social scientist in the past 50 years." ' 'Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress. ' Index.. New in New dust jacket .

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