Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (Rodolfo DeBenedetti Lectures) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:3783868 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3783868 N2 - In 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, and the character of their political parties, as well as their experiences of war; and they examine sociological explanations which include different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility, as well as, most importantly, attitudes to race. SN - 0199286108 TI - Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (Rodolfo DeBenedetti Lectures) PB - Oxford University Press, USA KW - books KW - economics KW - poverty KW - social-policy KW - welfare-state AU - Alesina, Alberto AU - Glaeser, Edward PY - 2006/01/12/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0199286108 ER -