Alberto Alesina

Alberto Alesina is a Professor in the Economics Department at Harvard University. His primary fields of interest are political economy, monetary and fiscal policy, and macroeconomics.

Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different?

Most governments redistribute income through taxation and the welfare state. But European governments do so more than the government of the United States. Does this reflect more of a taste

By Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Alesina and Robert MacCulloch

/ 24 Apr 2002