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Book contents
- Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Decades of Income Inequality
- 2 Macroeconomic Income Distribution
- 3 “Capital,” Capital Gains, Capitalization, and Wealth
- 4 Sectoral Stagnation, Flat Productivity, and Lagging Real Wages
- 5 Institutions and Models for Maldistribution
- 6 Possible Future Prospects
- References
- Index
5 - Institutions and Models for Maldistribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2020
- Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Decades of Income Inequality
- 2 Macroeconomic Income Distribution
- 3 “Capital,” Capital Gains, Capitalization, and Wealth
- 4 Sectoral Stagnation, Flat Productivity, and Lagging Real Wages
- 5 Institutions and Models for Maldistribution
- 6 Possible Future Prospects
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 presents simulation results from a simple, demand-driven economic growth and distribution model based on the numbers we have discussed. This chapter provides background for the simulations. It first takes up proposed institutional explanations for increasing income inequality, with regard to labor market power, then forces supporting high profits and wealth, and implications of duality. The second part of the chapter summarizes aspects of demand-driven macroeconomics as it is influenced by distribution. Relevant algebra is presented in the Appendix.
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- Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to TrumpMarket Power, Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Industrial Decline, pp. 79 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020