Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan

Broschiertes Buch

Streets of Gold

America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Beschreibung

The facts, not the fiction, of America's immigration experience

Autor

Ran Abramitzky is professor of economics and the Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a former co-editor of Explorations in Economic History. Weaving his family story together with extensive economic and historical data, Abramitzky’s prize-winning book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz examines how communities based on income equality survived in Israel for over a century, and the conditions under which more equal societies can thrive. Leah Boustan is professor of economics and director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. She is also co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and serves as co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her prize-winning scholarly book, Competition in the Promised Land, examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural South during and after World War II. She has written for The New York Times, The American Prospect, and Slate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781541797840
• ISBN-10: 1541797841
• Artikelnr.: 67485926