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Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference
Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser
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.
Keywords: United States, Europe, welfare policy, income redistribution, rich, poor, poverty
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199267668 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005 | DOI:10.1093/0199267669.001.0001 |
