Inequality, economic growth, and technological change : new aspects in an old debate / Volker Grossmann.

Author
Grossmann, Volker, 1971- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Heidelberg [Germany] ; New York : Physica-Verlag, c2001.
Description
xi, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Contributions to economics [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-187).
Contents
  • 1. Where do we stand? A survey. 1.1. Growth and the functional income distribution: the classical and Marxian perspective. 1.2. Distributional aspects of Keynesian and neoclassical growth theory. 1.3. The Kuznets hypothesis and some cross-section data. 1.4. How inequality and redistribution affects growth. 1.5. How technological change affects the income distribution
  • 2. Status concerns, inequality, and growth. 2.1. Motivation. 2.2. The model. 2.3. Equilibrium growth. 2.4. Preferred growth rates and redistribution. 2.5. Discussion. 2.6. Summary
  • 3. Inequality, voting over public consumption, and growth. 3.1. Motivation. 3.2. Voting over public expenditure: a simple model. 3.3. Public expenditure in a growth model. 3.4. Equilibrium growth and public consumption. 3.5. Individual demand for public consumption and growth. 3.6. Voting equilibrium in the growth model. 3.7. Discussion. 3.8. Some empirical evidence. 3.9. Summary
  • 4. Skilled labor reallocation, wage inequality, and growth. 4.1. Motivation. 4.2. The model. 4.3. Perfect foresight growth equilibrium. 4.4. Comparative static results. 4.5. Discussion. 4.6. Summary
  • 5. Where do we go from here? Conclusions and open questions.
ISBN
3790813648
LCCN
00068221
OCLC
45505999
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