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costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
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high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. Temporary shocks to the distribution of income or the political …
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
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and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …
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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public … goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the genealogical relationship between the entire set of 6,912 world languages, to …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …
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creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …
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This paper models technology adoption as replacing workers by machines, which perform the same job in the production process. The paper shows that such modelling of technology adoption affects significantly the analysis of economic growth. This model can explain large and persistent...
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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