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The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
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The growing levels of income inequality, an explosion of global financial flows, and a worldwide decline of economic … for an expansionary and progressive economic policy. Reviewing several schools of thought, Inequality, Growth and 'Hot …
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1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate … debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses -- Part III: the macro inference of inequality -- 8. Rent, wealth and … bubbles -- 9. A model with heterogeneous supply -- 10. Wealth and capital gains in financial markets -- Part IV: inequality …
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distributional preference as developed through public choice theory. This fine collection illustrates Harold M. Hochman's major …
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welfare and income distribution. After reviewing various inequality and tax progressivity measures, as well as social welfare …
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theory and industrial economics. The final chapters contain an analysis of the short-run effects of changes in pricing … theory to the short run, including accounts of attempts to synthesise the major theoretical strands …
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The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy draws together a selection of Myrick Freeman's most influential papers on key analytical and policy issues in the field of environmental economics. The papers collected in this significant volume cover a wide range of topics pertinent to the study of...
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issues connected with growth theory considered from different theoretical perspectives. Its uniqueness is derived from the … classical tradition, modern theory, and heterodox models; problems of policy; dynamics and business cycles; and the role of … scholars of the theory of economic growth, the theory of distribution, macroeconomics, classical and Keynesian economics, as …
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increase in wage inequality. This book provides explanations of these two characteristics of modern economies and analyses them … of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … by most countries. The author provides a number of alternative theories for the increase in wage inequality as a result …
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