1: Introduction
2: Redistribution in the United Sates and Europe: the data
3: Economic explanations
4: Political institutions and redistribution
5: The origin of political institutions
6: Race and redistribution
7: The Ideology of Redistribution
8: Conclusions
Index
Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy
and currently Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard
University, and has been Visiting Professor at IGIER-Bocconi and
MIT. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic
Research and for the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is
Co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in addition to
his many books and papers he has published columns in the
Financial
Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe, Le Monde, Il Sole 24 Ore, La
Stampa, Frankfurter Zeitung, and Handelsblatt, and many other
newspapers nationwide. Edward L. Glaeser is a Professor of
Economics at
Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He teaches
urban and social economics and microeconomic theory, and has
published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and
economics. He is a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau
of Economic Research, and has also been a consultant for numerous
international international institutions.
`... remarkable book ... Mr Alesina and Mr Glaeser, both Harvard
economists, are doing what the best in their profession do well
these days: seeking to explain society not merely with conventional
economic tools but with
analysis of institutions, geography and social behaviour.'
The Economist 12 March 2004
`In what ways, and why, are the United States and Europe so far
apart in social policy? Alesina and Glaeser give us as definitive
an answer to this fundamental question as we shall ever see.'
George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize Laureate
`This probing of the forces behind 'American exceptionalism', as
measured by a much smaller welfare state than in Europe, is
immensely important. The authors take a multi-discipline approach
and consider many factors, including narrowly economic variables,
political institutions, racial and ethnic diversity, the effects of
wars, attitudes toward the
poor, and still others. Their findings are sometimes surprising and
frequently provocative. This monograph will
quickly become the foundation of further literature on a subject of
enormous significance.'
Gary S. Becker, Nobel Prize Laureate
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