The book examines the relationship between inequality, growth and technological
progress. It provides a broad overview of the existing literature and introduces
specific, innovative aspects about the impact of inequality and redistribution
on growth when growth is driven by human or physical capital investments, as
well as the impact of technological progress and accumulation on the
distribution of earnings.
There is a special focus on the role of social comparison, redistributive
taxation and new information technologies for the relationship between
inequality and growth. The analytical part of the book mainly consists of
endogenous growth models
Table Of Contents:
Introduction11Where do we stand? A survey71.1Growth and the functional income
distribution: the classical