excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the exporting' of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

, which provides an integrated framework for analyzing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether or not the same is true of inequality in total …