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176 publications found, searching for 'The Distribution of Income and Wealth '

• Working Paper No. 236
  May 01, 1998

  An Important Inconsistency at the Heart of the Standard Macroeconomic Model

  Wynne Godley and Anwar M. Shaikh
  Abstract

  The standard neoclassical model is the foundation of most mainstream macroeconomics. Its basic structure dominates the analyis of macroeconomic phenomena, the teaching of the subject, and even the formation of…more

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• Working Paper No. 211
  November 01, 1997

  Income Distribution, Macroeconomic Analysis, and Barriers to Full Employment

  Malcolm Sawyer
  Abstract

  The distribution of income is conspicuous by its absence from most mainstream macroeconomic analysis. Visiting Scholar Malcolm Sawyer, of the University of Leeds, makes an effort to remedy this situation…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 33
  August 06, 1997

  Is There a Trade-Off between Unemployment and Inequality?

  Rebecca M. Blank
  Abstract

  Rebecca M. Blank considers how the flexibility of American labor markets and the regulation and redistribution policies of European labor markets may determine employers’ responses to worldwide economic transformations that…more

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• Working Paper No. 205
  August 01, 1997

  Macroeconomics without Equilibrium or Disequilibrium

  Wynne Godley
  Abstract

  Distinguished Scholar Wynne Godley creates a numerical simulation model that attempts a synthesis between the monetary theory of Hicks and Kaldor, the asset allocation theory of James Tobin, and the…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 28
  November 10, 1996

  Making Work Pay

  Barry Bluestone and Teresa Ghilarducci
  Abstract

  Barry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts and Teresa Ghilarducci of the University of Notre Dame show that although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 18
  January 04, 1995

  The Economics of Aging

  S. Jay Levy
  Abstract

  S. Jay Levy presents a preliminary study of the consumption patterns of retirees and nonretirees during the 1980s, paying particular attention to the distribution of the national consumer product. The…more

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• Book Series
  June 01, 1994

  Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  The essays in this volume explore several aspects of wealth and income distribution during the 1980s, a decade characterized not only by economic expansion, but also by a widening disparity…more

• Book Series
  December 01, 1993

  Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N. Wolff
  Abstract

  The fact that levels of poverty and inequality showed an unprecedented rise in the 1980s in the United States despite a sustained expansion beginning in 1983 raises concerns about appropriate…more