Re: Equality/Efficiency trade off...

2002-01-17 Thread michael pugliese
See, "The Economic Illusion, " by Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect. On social dem. anyone bring up the John Stephens studies? max has mentioned Przewski (never can spell that guys name right, the Univ. of Chicago academic, "Paper Stones, " is the title of one of his studies on socd

Re: The equality/efficiency trade-off: empirical evidence

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Wonderful! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The equality/efficiency trade-off: empirical evidence

2002-01-17 Thread Tom Walker
The equality/efficiency trade-off: empirical evidence   Arthur Okun. Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off, 1975   The pursuit of efficiency necessarily creates inequalities. And hence society faces a trade-off between equality and efficiency.   Paul Krugman in NYT Sept. 16, 2001 In