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Redressing Historical Injustice Self-Ownership, Property Rights and Economic Equality
This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by...
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Myth 22: Productivity Gains No Longer Benefit U.S. Workers
It’s now conventional wisdomconventional wisdom that labor productivitylabor productivity gains no longer benefit U.S. workers in the form of higher...
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Inequality, social protection policy, and inclusion: pertinent theories and empirical evidence
The available literature shows that there is a questionable direction of correlation between income inequality, redistribution policies, and economic...
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Introduction: The Political Economy of Rising Income Inequality
This introductory chapter provides accounts on why increasing income inequality is an issue of the political economy of contemporary capitalism. The...
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Inequalities and segregation: can welfarist local governments struggle against both simultaneously?
This paper analyses how progressive taxation schemes, implemented by local welfarist government, affect the segregative properties of endogenous...
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Inequality and the Size of US State Government
The median voter theory of government size argues that increased income inequality brings about greater demand for redistribution (Meltzer and...
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Economics: Optimizing Growth
The chapter examines the issues of mutual influence of technological and economic growth, the pace of which, after unprecedentedly high rates in the...
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Regional policy interaction in a federal economy
A key question in fiscal federalism is the determination of horizontal policy interdependence at the regional levels. In this paper, we explore the...
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Inequality and Elections in Italy, 1994–2018
The increase in income and wealth inequality in Italy is well documented, but less attention has been devoted to its association with social and...
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Wealth-destroying states
According to the contract theory of the state, individuals give up their freedom to a specialist in violence who then provides public goods, such as...
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Scarred for Life? Recession Experiences, Beliefs and the State
This paper investigates ways in which major recessions have impacted individuals’ views about the role of the state in the economy across the world....
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Is the Relationship of Wealth Inequality with the Real, Financial and Housing Cycle Country-Specific?
Relying on the methodology of deviation cycle dynamics, we analyze whether the association of wealth inequality measures and the real, financial and...
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Inequality and Economic Growth in the UK
This paper analyses the effect of wealth inequality on UK economic growth in recent decades with a heterogeneous-agent growth model where agents can...
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Constraints to Economic Growth: Sustainability, Happiness and Other Issues
Sustainability goes beyond the environmental aspect. It has several dimensions, often interconnected. Economic growth is sustainable if it is...
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Inequality and identity salience
This paper provides a simple model of identity salience that is applied to the phenomenon of the recent rise in right-wing populism in the Western...
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Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail
This article first describes the main developments in measuring the upper tail of the income and wealth distributions over the last twenty years....
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Flaunt them If you’ve Got them? Informal Connections and Beliefs About Prospects of Upward Mobility in Transition Economies
Expectations of future upward mobility have been shown to determine current preferences for redistribution, but how are these expectations formed?...
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Inequality and Government Size: A Political Economy Theory and OECD Evidence
The median voter theory of government size predicts that greater inequality leads to greater demand for redistribution and larger government Meltzer...
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Ecological Effects of Basic Income
Howard, Pinto and Schachtschneider consider ecological arguments for a Basic Income. Environmental limits mean that economic growth might no longer...
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Beyond Economic Inequality: Unmeasurable Values, Collective Demand, and Community Building in Classic Period Mesoamerica
In the modern world, we tend to convert myriad types of values into economic ones. As a result, our perspectives on wealth inequality are so...