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Thomas Piketty is the most politically and economically important participant in the ongoing debate about the deleterious effects of income and wealth inequality. The article analyses his arguments carefully because they give Marxists an opportunity to intervene in a mainstream...
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Machine generated contents note: List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paving the High Road; Closing the Low Road -- Part I-European Social Democracy Points Toward the High Road -- 1 Social Citizenship: Lessons from Sweden -- 2 Associative Democracy: Lessons from Europe's German...
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We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
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We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
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In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and … social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …
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This article analyzes the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent … density, deindustrialization, unemployment, employment levels, and education spending. The main determinants of redistribution … levels. Redistribution rises mainly because needs rise (that is, unemployment and single mother households increase), not …
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In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and … social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753328