The article sketches a development model for small economies in the 1990s as an alternative to the neoliberal model pushed by the IMF. It reviews the experience of Jamaica with various development models from the 1950s to the 1990s. It also draws lessons from the experience of small European...

We re-analyze the major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard (MR) model, power resources theory (PRT), the Iversen-Soskice political institutions explanation, Lupu and Ponstusson's wage inequality skew, along with works suggesting other causes, such as immigration. The...

The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, to date there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national variation in the recent rise of very top incomes. Drawing on the World Top Incomes Database, we study the income share of...