Alan B. Krueger

"Drawing on interviews with leading artists and band members as well as journeymen musicians, music executives, and managers, economist Alan Krueger takes readers backstage to show how the music industry works. Incorporating tabulations of the latest data on concert revenues, ticket prices, royalties, streaming, tour dates, and merchandise sales, Rockonomics reveals who makes money and how, and it chronicles the radical transformation of the economics of the music industry in recent decades."--Book jacket

A Backstage Tour of what the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life

Rockonomics

economics and the roots of terrorism

What makes a terrorist

David Card

A powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. Using data from recent minimum wage change results, economists David Card and Alan Krueger show that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs.

The New Economics of the Minimum Wage

Myth and Measurement

Anders Bjorklund

Melissa A. Clark

Per-Anders Edin

Peter Fredricksson

A large central government providing numerous public services has long been a hallmark of Swedish society, which is also well-known for its pursuit of equality. Yet in the 1990s, Sweden moved away from this tradition in education, introducing market-oriented reforms that decentralized authority over public schools and encouraged competition between private and public schools. Many wondered if this approach would improve educational quality, or if it might expand inequality that Sweden has fought so hard to hold down. In The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, economists Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger measure the impact of Sweden's bold experiment in governing and help answer the questions that societies across the globe have been debating as they try to improve their children's education. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden injects some much-needed objectivity into the heavily politicized debate about the effectiveness of educational reform. While advocates for reform herald the effectiveness of competition in improving outcomes, others suggest that the reforms will grossly increase educational inequality for young people. The authors find that increased competition did help improve students' math and language skills, but only slightly, and with no effect on the performance of foreign-born students and those with low-educated parents. They also find some signs of increasing school segregation and wider inequality in student performance, but nothing near the doomsday scenarios many feared. In fact, the authors note that the relationship between family background and school performance has hardly budged since before the reforms were enacted. The authors conclude by providing valuable recommendations for school reform, such as strengthening school evaluation criteria, which are essential for parents, students, and governments to make competent decisions regarding education. Whether or not the market-oriented reforms to Sweden's educational system succeed will have far reaching implications for other countries considering the same course of action. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden offers firm empirical answers to the questions raised by school reform and brings crucial facts to the debate over the future of schooling in countries across the world.

An Evaluation of Sweden's Surprising School Reforms

The Market Comes to Education in Sweden

Surely everyone wants to know the source of happiness, and indeed, economists and social scientists are increasingly interested in the study and effects of subjective well-being. Putting forward a rigorous method and new data for measuring, comparing, and analyzing the relationship between well-being and the way people spend their time—across countries, demographic groups, and history—this book will help set the agenda of research and policy for decades to come. It does so by introducing a system of National Time Accounting (NTA), which relies on individuals’ own evaluations of their emotional experiences during various uses of time, a distinct departure from subjective measures such as life satisfaction and objective measures such as the Gross Domestic Product. A distinguished group of contributors here summarize the NTA method, provide illustrative findings about well-being based on NTA, and subject the approach to a rigorous conceptual and methodological critique that advances the field. As subjective well-being is topical in economics, psychology, and other social sciences, this book should have cross-disciplinary appeal.

National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being

Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations

"Krueger proves...that terrorists are not desperately poor killers but well-educated politicians using violence to draw attention to their 'market'--violent change."--Hernando de Soto, author of The Mystery of Capital. Features a new Introduction by the author.he author.

Economics and the Roots of Terrorism - 10th Anniversary Edition

What Makes a Terrorist

Joshua David Angrist

Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics

“Müzik Kütüphanesi”nin ilk kitabı mart ayının başında çıktığında, 2020 yılının dünyayı durduracak bir salgınla “taç”lanmak üzere olduğunun farkında değildik. Yüz binlerce insanın hayatına mal olan küresel salgın, müzik endüstrisini de kökünden değiştirecek gibi görünüyor: Canlı müzik bir daha eskisi gibi olacak mı? Bu dönemde insanların ne kadarı bir araya gelerek eğlenmek isteyecek? Evden yapılan canlı yayınlar ve bu yayınların çoğunlukla “bedava” olması, dinleyicinin/izleyicinin kafasında performansın anlam ve önemine dair bir erozyona yol açacak mı? Müzisyenler, teknisyenler, ışıkçılar nasıl para kazanacak? Müzik, dünyanın en ucuz şeyi olmaya devam mı edecek, yoksa daha da mı ucuz olmalı? Peki müziksiz bir dünyayı birkaç gün deneyimlemek, acaba toplumun geri kalanına başka bir fikir verir miydi? Ve herkesi farklı farklı vuran bu salgın sırasında, müziğin bize nasıl güç, şifa ve dayanma gücü verdiğini bir kez daha görmedik mi? Müzik sektörünün dertleri giderek büyüyor ve dünya müzik çevreleri bu dertleri toplumun gündemine getirmenin yeni yollarını arıyor. Elinizde tuttuğunuz kitap, çok sıra dışı bir yazarın, çok yeni ve bu konular açısından çok önemli bir kitabı. Obama döneminin ekonomi başdanışmanı, iktisat profesörü Alan B. Krueger, Müzikonomi’de müzik endüstrisinin çeşitli yönleriyle fotoğrafını çekerken, buradaki eşitsizliklerden yola çıkarak dünya ekonomisine dair teşhis ve önerilerde bulunuyor.

Müzikonomi

Education Matters presents in one volume many of Alan B. Krueger's contributions to the economics of education. This invaluable collection of papers, based on his groundbreaking research from the 1990s, has been published in a wide range of professional outlets and has influenced public policy and research in the US and throughout the world.The book opens with an introductory essay explaining the importance of the study of the economics of education as well as providing an overview of the book. The author then goes on to discuss and analyse the important topics in the economics of education, including the economic pay off from attending school for longer, the return to investments in school resources, causes of the increased pay off to education, the contribution of education to economic growth, and racial differences in school quality and their consequences. The final chapter provides a framework for evaluating schools.This fascinating collection of work, from a writer at the forefront of economics and educational research, will be warmly welcomed by academics in the areas of human capital, economics and public policy, as well as by educational policymakers.

Alan B. Krueger

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