benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …

democracy, where the government reacts both to voting and lobbying activities of workers and pensioners. While an …

Taking Macur Olsonś theory of the decline of nations as pathbreaking in this field we develop a formal model of the …-group-state. Followed by a brief survey of empirical studies testing Olsonś theory, we at the first time in the literature present a time …

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …