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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Schansberg, D. Eric. Poor policy. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 (OCoLC)654633802 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
D Eric Schansberg |
| ISBN: | 0813328241 9780813328249 081332825X 9780813328256 |
| OCLC Number: | 34285061 |
| Description: | xii, 244 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Measuring Poverty: Who's Poor? -- 2. Government as Robin Hood: Taxing the Rich and Redistributing to the Poor -- 3. Discrimination: A Primary or Secondary Cause of Poverty? -- 4. Reversing Robin Hood: How to Transfer Income to the Non-Poor -- 5. Redistributing Income Through Product Markets: Increasing Prices for the Poor -- 6. The Minimum Wage: Locking Unskilled Workers Out of the Labor Market -- 7. Other Labor Market Interventions: Locking Out Relatively Unskilled Workers -- 8. Other Types of Redistribution to the Non-Poor: Let Me Count the Ways... -- 9. Mandating a Pathetic Level of Education: A Way to Ensure Lifetime Poverty -- 10. Prohibition II: The Sequel -- 11. Where They Live and Breathe: Government Policy in the Markets for Housing and Health -- 12. The Historical Role of Ideology in Efforts to Fight Poverty -- 13. Equity Versus Efficiency: The Costs of Pursuing Income Equality -- 14. Still Losing Ground |
| Responsibility: | D. Eric Schansberg. |
Abstract:
Challenging the conventional approach most "poverty" books take - a focus on how government attempts to assist the poor with welfare programs - D. Eric Schansberg instead presents in this volume a dynamic and timely alternative to the idea. Using public choice economics, he illustrates how special interest groups advocate policies that benefit themselves but inadvertently hurt the poor.
The author demonstrates how this inequity occurs in both product and labor markets - from farm subsidies to protectionist trade policies, from drug prohibition to the government's provision of public education.
In addition, Schansberg provides the reader with a thorough analysis of welfare policies, focusing on the intractable problems built into the current system. He then argues for radical welfare reform advocating case-by-case solutions centered on "tough love" and to the extent possible, private charities. The author also provides statistical information on income distribution and redistribution, a discussion of discrimination, and a section devoted to international policy issues.
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- Poor -- Government policy -- United States.
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