This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...

This paper develops a model of luxury goods by incorporating weakly non-separable, recursive preferences. In a two-good framework, a quasi-luxury is de ned as a good whose marginal rate of substitution is increasing in wealth. Under certain conditions, it is identical to a luxury good. Consumers...

This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...

This paper develops a model of luxury goods by incorporating weakly non-separable, recursive preferences. In a two-good framework, a quasi-luxury is de ned as a good whose marginal rate of substitution is increasing in wealth. Under certain conditions, it is identical to a luxury good. Consumers...