The new economics of income distribution introducing equilibrium concepts into a contested field

With the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industrialized and developing countries, new equilibria are bound to eme...

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Main Author: Sell, Friedrich L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd 2015
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520 |a With the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industrialized and developing countries, new equilibria are bound to emerge. The book aims at a better understanding of the forces that create these new equilibria in income distribution and examines the concept at three distinct levels: market equilibrium, bargaining equilibrium and political economy equilibrium. In particular, the author addresses the question of how the main factor markets of labour and capital are related to income distribution. Sell's theoretical and empirical analysis investigates global income quotas, the aggregate distribution of income between labour and capital, and between labour income earners and profit income earners. New models are used to explain the dynamics of income distribution during business cycles and as a companion to long-term economic growth. A main focus of the monograph is on the ways in which globalization affects income distribution via trade flows, capital flows and labour mobility. Throughout, income distribution is regarded as a result of the struggle between different social preferences such as inequity aversion and equity aversion. This erudite and extensive tome will be of value to all economists, scholars and students interested in economic growth and inequality 
520 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Various concepts of equilibrium in economics -- 3. Income distribution and the labour market -- 4. Income distribution and the capital market -- 5. Income distribution and the business cycle -- 6. Income distribution and economic growth -- 7. Factor mobility and income distribution -- 8. International trade and income distribution -- 9. Final remarks