This chapter reviews the literature that tries to explain the disparity and variation of GDP per worker and GDP per capita across countries and across time. There are many potential explanations for the different patterns of development across countries, including differences in luck, raw...

This article describes a model that shows the economic effects of political structure. Four structures are examined: dictatorship, individual enterprise, individual enterprise with tax redistribution, and anarchism. The dependent variables are total output and its distribution

To explain the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, we develop a computational model of endogenous growth by taking the effects of fixed government expenditure into account. With such a model, a non-linear relationship between level of income inequality and economic growth...

We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...

We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...