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Chapter 25. Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - 2005

The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...

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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020) : man, researcher, Professor of Economics, popularizer

Vindigni, Andrea - 2023

This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...

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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...

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Inequality, Politics, and Economic Growth : Three Critical Questions on Politico-Economic Models of Growth and Distribution

Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - 2003

according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …

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The political economy of growth and distribution: A theoretical critique

Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - 2003

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary …

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Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth

Ostry, Jonathan David; Berg, Andrew; Tsangarides, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

the previous SDN on inequality and growth by focusing on the role of redistribution. It finds that, from the perspective … of the best available macroeconomic data, there is not a lot of evidence that redistribution has in fact undercut … is a big tradeoff between redistribution and growth. The best available macroeconomic data do not support such a …

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Costly technology adoption, redistribution and growth

Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 440-449

of the distribution favor a larger amount of revenue allocated towards redistribution in the form of lump-sum transfers …

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Inequality, Politics, and Economic Growth. Three Critical Questions on Politico-Economic Models on Growth and Distribution

Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2003

according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …

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The political economy of growth and distribution: A theoretical critique

Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, … - 2003

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary …

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The political economy of redistribution and (in)efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean

Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023

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