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The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income-not poverty per se-is bad for people's health.

The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much more than that: They present a matchless course of instruction in the demographics of poverty and prosperity, hardship and health, and progress and decline, and they paint a vivid, pointillist portrait of the circumstances of modern humanity. Nick Eberstadt, armed only with data and patient study, debunks...

This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena and policy

Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational

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In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and em...

Numbers are increasingly used to guide acts of government, but not always for the better. This work examines the "facts and figures" that have led to measures unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries. Coverage ranges from poverty in South Africa to the collapse of communism.

A collection of essays addressing the problem of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea.

This work presents a detailed picture of the divergent socio-economic trends in divided Korea since its 1945 partition. It also covers the social and political situation in the North and South today, and the domestic and international challenges to a successful Korean reunification.

This work presents a detailed picture of the divergent socio-economic trends in divided Korea since its 1945 partition. It also covers the social and political situation in the North and South today, and the domestic and international challenges to a successful Korean reunification.

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Nel resto del mondo, "l'Europa è vista come un'area di stabilità e di ricchezza dove la gente è pagata per non lavorare, dove la produttività è bassa e le tasse sono alte". Mario Draghi pronunciava queste parole in una conferenza del 2004. È quasi dalla durata di una generazione che la crescita economica dell'Europa arranca, rispetto alla crescita degli Stati Uniti e a quella dei Paesi del Sud Est asiatico. Nel frattempo, la popolazione europe...

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Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational. But as Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates in this meticulously researched volume, there is a grim coherence to North Korea's political economy, and a ruthless logic undergirding it-one that unreservedly subordinates economic welfare to augmentation of political power. Th us, paradoxically, even as offi cial policies and practices consign the DPRK economy to a perilous rea...

This text challenges the current trend of blaming social problems on expanding populations. The author argues that problems attributed to demographic trends are actually rooted in political and ethical situations.