rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

context of public attitudes to inequality and different forms of redistribution. It compares the distributional effects of the … public attitudes. However, delays between Budget announcements and implementation meant that inequality and relative poverty …

corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing … countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …

We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has …

with such institutions as the state, family structure, etc., constitute the superstructure of the society, as being no more …

Institutions that serve the interests of an elite are often cited as an important reason for poor economic performance …. This paper builds a model of institutions that allocate resources and power to maximize the payoff of an elite, but where … any group that exerts sufficient fighting effort can launch a rebellion that destroys the existing institutions. The …