commitments. The political regime is shown to depend not only on income levels, but also, in particular, on resource inequality … inequality across several dimensions due to unbalanced technological change, immigration or changes in the demographic structure …

responsive to increases in inequality. A substantial literature on the impacts of inequality on economic growth exists, but has … standard of living of middle-income and low-income families. In the context of rising inequality, increased overall growth is … income can potentially lead to increases in the incomes of low and middle-income families if economic growth is sufficiently …