@article{1398457,
      author = {Bowles, Samuel.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398457},
      title = {The new economics of inequality and redistribution  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution  Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing  field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called  "equality-efficiency trade-off" - has proven difficult to  document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary  levels of economic inequality now experienced in many  economies are detrimental to the economy. Moreover, recent  economic experiments and other evidence confirm that most  citizens are committed to fairness and are willing to  sacrifice to help those less fortunate than themselves.  Incorporating the latest results from behavioural  economics, the new microeconomics of credit and labor  markets, Bowles shows that escalating economic disparity is  not the unavoidable price of progress. Rather it is policy  choice - often a very costly one"--},
      recid = {1398457},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 188 pages)},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      year = {2012},
}