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1	Eat Right, Eat Well, the Italian Way more books like this by Edward Giobbi, Richard N Wolff, M.D. A celebrated book of Italian recipes by an acknowledged expert in the field--newly updated with considerations of cholesterol and fat. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $71.01! \| first editions
2	Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done about It more books like this by Edward N Wolff, Richard C Leone, PH.D. (Introduction by) "Top Heavy" is an updated and expanded version of a Twentieth Century Fund report, documenting the gains in wealth made by the rich in the 1980s and proposing innovative plans for remedying the imbalance in wealth in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.06! \| SVS
3	Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View more books like this by William J Baumol (Editor), Edward N Wolff (Editor), Sue A Blackman (Editor) Those who announce the demise of American's position as an economic world leader are, like the author of Mark Twain's obituary, a bit premature. "Productivity and American Leadership "examines and analyzes the long run productivity performance of the United States, comparing it with that of other industrialized countries. It shows that the U.S. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Growth, Accumulation, and Unproductive Activity more books like this by Edward N Wolff This book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II and its relation to the economic surplus, capital accumulation, and economic growth. Unproductive activities broadly consist of those involved in the circulation process, including wholesaling and retailing, banking and financial services, ... see all copies from $36.87! new only from $36.87! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Top Heavy: A Study of the Increasing Inequity of Wealth in America more books like this by Edward N Wolff Once considered the land of opportunity, it is thought that America now has a gap between the haves and the have-nots that is much wider than in Europe, and that the concentration of wealth is at its highest point since World War II. This book places the distribution of household wealth in the USA in a historical and international context. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00!
6	Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work, and Inequality more books like this by Edward N Wolff This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational ... see all copies from $31.16! new only from $44.09!
7	Convergence of Productivity more books like this by William J Baumol (Editor), Edward N Wolff (Editor), Richard R Nelson (Editor) This collection of original articles reviews the current state of knowledge concerning the convergence hypothesis. This hypothesis asserts that, for a restricted set of countries, their productivity and living standards are undergoing a process that brings them increasingly close to one another. Among the factors considered are patterns of ... see all copies from $22.88! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
8	Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership more books like this by Thomas M Shapiro (Editor), Edward N Wolff (Editor) see all copies from $20.00! new only from $27.00! \| SVS
9	Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization more books like this by David Dollar, Edward N Wolff David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a de-industrialized United States is on the road to second-rate status in the global market-place and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic. Their systematic and empirical investigation of the mechanisms through which countries like Japan and Germany have caught up with the United States in ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $20.70! \| first editions
10	Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences more books like this by William J Baumol, Alan S Blinder, Edward N Wolff see all copies from $15.00! new only from $16.64! \| SVS
11	What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations? more books like this by Edward N Wolff Throughout the 1990s the US expanded its lead over other advanced industrial nations in terms of conventionally measured per capita income. However, it is not clear that welfare levels in America have grown concomitantly with per capita income, or that Americans are necessarily better off than citizens of other advanced countries. The contributors ... see all copies from $131.90! new only from $131.90!
12 view cover	Economics of poverty inequality and discrimination more books like this by Edward N. Wolff This text serves as a self-contained course on income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on issues of discrimination. Sections of the book revisit microeconomics and basic statistics. Also includes considerable detail on the role of labor markets as a source of income differences among individuals. The role of public policy on ... see all copies from $74.82! new only from $142.70!
13	The Economics of Productivity more books like this by Edward N Wolff This text provides an anthology of many of the leading papers on productivity analysis. Growth accounting and the development of product functions is covered by classic papers from Robert Solow, Dale Jorgenson, Edward Denison, and Angus Maddison. Part two of the book examines topics on the economics of research and development and technological ... see all copies from $215.59! new only from $437.98!
14	Retirement Insecurity: the Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-Retire by Edward N. Wolff see all copies from $7.00! first editions
15 view cover	International Perspectives on Household Wealth by Edward N Wolff (Editor) see all copies from $146.35! new only from $146.35!
16	International Perspectives on Profitability and Accumulation more books like this by Fred B. Moseley (Editor), Edward N. Wolff, Edward N. Wolfe (Editor) Has the rate of profit been falling the US or other industrialized countries? What are the factors that are directly responsible for its increase over time and what factors account for its decline? The rate of profit is one of the most important economic variables. It directly affects the rate of growth of an economy, both as a source of funds for ... see all copies from $113.04! new only from $113.04!
17	International Comparisons of the Distribution of Household Wealth more books like this by Edward N Wolff (Editor) This volume reports some of the latest available evidence on inequality in household wealth for Canada, France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, and West Germany. The findings can be summarized under three headings. The first is the gradual but persistent decline in the degree of wealth inequality among households during the twentieth century. Second, ... see all copies from $20.01!
18	Poverty and prosperity in the USA in the late twentieth century more books like this by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Edward N. Wolff The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented rise in inequality and poverty in the US, despite an economic expansion that began in 1983. The papers collected in this volume explore differing manifestations including poverty rates that remained unexpectedly high over the period, the shrinkage of the middle class, a growing intergenerational wealth gap, a ... see all copies from $45.00!
19	Convergence of Productivity: Cross-National Studies and Historical Evidence more books like this by William J Baumol (Editor), Richard R Nelson (Editor), Edward N Wolff (Editor) see all copies from $15.88!

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