Rewarding Work

How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise, With a New Preface

Edmund Phelps

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674026940

Publication Date: 10/30/2007

Short

208 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 table

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Preface 2007
Preface
Prologue
The Problem
1. Why Work?
2. America’s Second-Class Workers
3. The Decline of Labor
4. The Damage to Others
5. Is It Culture?
6. Economic Sources
7. The Role of the Welfare System
8. The Market-Based Solution
9. The Case for the Market-Based Solution
10. The Flaws in Other Approaches
11. Reply to Objections
Epilogue
Cost of the Model Wage Subsidy Plan
Notes
Index

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