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Book Income Distribution and High quality Growth

Download or read book Income Distribution and High quality Growth written by Vito Tanzi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors argue that there need not be a trade-off between growth and equity in the long run. However, attempts by government to influence income distribution through large-scale tax and transfer programs can have a negative impact on growth. The contrast is vivid. While the majority of people in the industrial world and some in the developing world enjoy unprecedented affluence, a far greater number of people in the low-income countries live in abject poverty. Although several developing countries are achieving rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, most formerly centrally planned countries are struggling to implement market-oriented reforms in the midst of economic deterioration and rising poverty. The paramount importance of reducing poverty worldwide is forcing economists and policymakers to look at how income distribution and economic growth interact. The essays in this volume grew out of a 1995 conference sponsored by the International Monetary Fund. The contributors are scholars and policymakers from academic institutions, governments, and international organizations. The questions discussed include: How does income distribution interact with economic growth in the short run and the long run? To what extent can government use transfer programs to increase the incomes of the poor? How can government use social programs to help the poor increase their income-earning capacity? Does distributional inequality create an obstacle to long-term poverty reduction? Alternatively, is distributional inequality a necessary means of achieving economic growth? Generally, the contributors agree that there need not be a trade-off between growth and equity in the long run. However, attempts by government to influence income distribution through large-scale tax and transfer programs can have a negative impact on growth.

Book Inequality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony B. Atkinson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 0674504763
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Inequality written by Anthony B. Atkinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University An Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem—talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate—but there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair. According to the distinguished economist Anthony Atkinson, however, we can do much more than skeptics imagine. “[Atkinson] sets forth a list of concrete, innovative, and persuasive proposals meant to show that alternatives still exist, that the battle for social progress and equality must reclaim its legitimacy, here and now... Witty, elegant, profound, this book should be read.” —Thomas Piketty, New York Review of Books “An uncomfortable affront to our reigning triumphalists. [Atkinson’s] premise is straightforward: inequality is not unavoidable, a fact of life like the weather, but the product of conscious human behavior. —Owen Jones, The Guardian

Book Chance  Merit  and Economic Inequality

Download or read book Chance Merit and Economic Inequality written by Joseph de la Torre Dwyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied political theory, it presents a simple but powerful theoretical argument and a detailed proposal to eliminate unmerited inequality, poverty, and economic immobility, speaking to the underlying moral principles of both progressives who already support egalitarian measures and also conservatives who have previously rejected egalitarianism on the grounds of individual freedom, personal responsibility, hard work, or economic efficiency. By using an agnostic, flexible, data-driven approach to isolate luck and ultimately measure desert, this proposal makes equal opportunity initiatives both more accurate and effective as it adapts to a changing economy. It grants to each individual the freedom to genuinely choose their place in the distribution. It provides two policy variations that are perfectly economically efficient, and two others that are conditionally so. It straightforwardly aligns outcomes with widely shared, fundamental moral intuitions. Lastly, it demonstrates much of the above by modeling four policy variations using 40 years of survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Book Contents of Recent Economics Journals

Download or read book Contents of Recent Economics Journals written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Firms in Transition

Download or read book Firms in Transition written by Saul Estrin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dynamic Index Model for Large Cross Sections

Download or read book A Dynamic Index Model for Large Cross Sections written by Danny Quah and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Reports  Translations and Theses

Download or read book British Reports Translations and Theses written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landmark Papers in Economic Fluctuations  Economic Policy  and Related Subjects

Download or read book Landmark Papers in Economic Fluctuations Economic Policy and Related Subjects written by Lawrence Robert Klein and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty papers from 1907 to 1990 address topics like stabilization policies, unemployment and wage rates, business cycles, debt, economic expansion, dynamic theory, home investment, capital accumulation and the allocation of resources, forecasts and economic policy, uncertainty, stochastic models, economic equilibrium, trade cycles, rationing and the cost of living, interest rates and prices, productivity, income distribution, interest theory, and Neumann models. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Industrial Relations and Economic Performance

Download or read book Industrial Relations and Economic Performance written by David Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Cynical Can an Incumbent Be

Download or read book How Cynical Can an Incumbent Be written by Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wage Setting and the Tax System

Download or read book Wage Setting and the Tax System written by Ben Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparing Case Studies

Download or read book Comparing Case Studies written by Peter Abell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Disadvantage of Tying Their Hands

Download or read book The Disadvantage of Tying Their Hands written by Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shorter Working Week in Engineering

Download or read book The Shorter Working Week in Engineering written by Ray Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Theory in a Changing World

Download or read book Economic Theory in a Changing World written by Sajal Lahiri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Brings Together 13 Essays Written By Known Academics Across Three Continents On Economic Growth And Development From Theoretical And Empirical Perspectives.