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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023762
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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to … long run. -- growth ; Community formation ; human capital ; redistribution ; social mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615432
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Multiple Politico-Economic Regimes, Inequality and Growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127229
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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
Bénabou, Roland - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072442
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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
Bénabou, Roland - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072596
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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
“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546295
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Growth, mobility and social welfare
Van de Gaer, Dirk; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2018
We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the welfare gain of the actual profile relative to the income profile where the individual receives his first period income in each period. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the welfare gain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919623
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Tax and education policy in a heterogeneous agent economy : what levels of redistribution maximize growth and efficiency?
Bénabou, Roland - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423083
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Piketty's Inequality between the Profit and Growth Rates and Its Implications for the Reproduction of Economic Elites
Benítez Sánchez, Alberto - 2017
This paper studies, within a growth model, some effects of the inequality between the profit and growth rates on the reproduction of economic elites. To this end, it considers as functions of the capital/income ratio the relations between, on the one hand, the rate of economic growth and, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962048
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461501