Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe
Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe
A World of Difference
Alesina, Alberto
, Harvard University
Glaeser, Edward
, Harvard University
Print publication date: 2004
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926766-8
doi:10.1093/0199267669.001.0001
Abstract:
This book explores the difference in the distributive policies of the United States and Europe. It seeks answers to why Americans are less willing than Europeans to redistribute from the rich to the poor. It finds that redistribution is influenced by political institutions, ethnic heterogeneity, and beliefs about the nature of poverty.