I t appears the more is written, the worse it gets.

An awful lot of stuff is at this website.  Things must be getting really
bad!

http://www.russellsage.org/programs/proj_reviews/si/papers.htm#reviews
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Also I just finished:

Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe - A World of Difference
Oxford University Press
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and Edward Glaeser, Harvard University

IT WAS A REAL EYE OPENER ABOUT THE FORCES THAT SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC
POLICIES IN DEVELOPED NATIONS. HIGHLY  RECOMMENDED!!

Price: £25.00 (Hardback)
0-19-926766-9
Publication date: 25 March 2004
262 pages, numerous tables and figures, 215mm x 138mm


Description
'... remarkable book ... Mr Alesina and Mr Glaeser, both Harvard
economists, are doing what the best in their profession do well these days:
seeking to explain society not merely with conventional economic tools but
with analysis of institutions, geography and social behaviour.' -The
Economist

'In what ways, and why, are the United States and Europe so far apart in
social policy? Alesina and Glaeser give us as definitive an answer to this
fundamental question as we shall ever see.' -George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize
Laureate

In this this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe
to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe
just how different the two continents are in the level of State engagement
in the redistribution of income. They discuss various possible economic and
sociological explanations for the difference, including different attitudes
to the poor, notions of social responsibility, and attitudes to race.

Readership: Academic and serious lay readers in economics and political
economy

Contents/contributors
1 Introduction
2 Redistribution in the United Sates and Europe: the data
3 Economic explanations
4 Political institutions and redistribution
5 The origin of political institutions
6 Race and redistribution
7 The Ideology of Redistribution
8 Conclusions
Index

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