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Explaining national inequality: the relevance of Marx and the irrelevance of equilibrium

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper was originally presented at the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conference called by the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference on 13th November 2007. It enquires why, although...

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The modernity of backwardness

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July 2007 conference of the International...

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The Poverty of Statistics

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper is a prepublication version of a paper accepted for publication by Third World Quarterly. It offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends, it shows, on the...

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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...

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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but...

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Economic Inequality in Portugal: A Picture in the Beginnings of the 21st century

Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This article uses data from the 1994-2001 waves of the European Community Household Panel to study economic inequality …

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The Lisbon process, re-visited. A reality check of the European social model.

Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

of world economic openness” but rather, on the contrary, by the enormous amount of passive globalization that Europe … – together with Latin America – experienced over recent years. Our combined measure of the velocity of the globalization process … and South Asia escaped from the combined pressures of globalization, while Eastern and Southern Latin America, very large …

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Is the Distribution of Income Shifting Away from Workers?

Tatom, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income gets redistributed to the rich. The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, led by Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Roger Altman, is dedicated to the study of this...

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Desigualdad y Bienestar en España y sus Comunidades Autónomas (1973-2003)

Goerlich, Francisco José; Villar, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents an integration between the normative approach of Dalton-Atkinson-Sen to inequality measurement with the positive approach related to the statistical dispersion or the generalized entropy family of inequality indexes. Given a social valuation formula that expresses the...

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Measuring concentration in economic sectors by h-index and g-index

Bartolucci, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We show that the h-index and the g-index, which are commonly used to mea- sure the research productivity of a scientist, may be seen as concentration indices. For these indices we also propose transformations that make them always ranging between two known limits, which correspond to the...

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