Le concept de distinction est au cÅ“ur de la réception allemande des travaux de Pierre Bourdieu. La traduction particulière des termes principaux qui s\'y lient directement, à savoir le corps (Leib) et l\'agent (Akteur), et la traduction du concept de distinction lui-même (Unterschied)...

This paper analyzes the impact of different individual skills and their economy-wide distribution among heterogenous entrepreneurs on a country's catching up-process to the world technology frontier (WTF). Highly skilled entrepreneurs qualify as either technological specialists or as broadly...

This paper analyzes the dynamic impact of tax cuts within a stochastic model of endogenous growth with a congested public input. A decreasing taxation of deterministic income parts leads to the well-known positive growth effect. Nevertheless, due to the insurance effect associated with the...