Institutional and social dynamics of growth and distribution

Institutions and the beginning of economic growth in eighteenth-century Britain -- The coevolution of institutions and preferences: history and theory -- Politics and income distribution -- Income distribution and the interaction between cycles and growth -- Market failures within poor institutions:...

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Main Author: Salvadori, Neri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar 2010
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Institutions and the beginning of economic growth in eighteenth-century Britain -- The coevolution of institutions and preferences: history and theory -- Politics and income distribution -- Income distribution and the interaction between cycles and growth -- Market failures within poor institutions: the effects of bureaucrats' rent-seeking activity -- Government spending, effective demand, distribution and growth: a dynamic analysis -- The role of human capital in economic growth: evidence from Greek regions -- Adult longevity and economic take-off from Malthus to Ben-Porath -- Endogenous age structure in descriptive macroeconomic growth models: a general framework and some steady state analysis -- Bright and wealthy: exploring assortative mating -- Information networks and knowledge spillovers: simulations in an agent-based model framework -- Interaction between economic and social variables: the transformational growth matrix -- Financial fragility, mean-field interaction and macroeconomic dynamics: a stochastic model
Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution presents a set of original contributions to the much-debated issues of long-run economic growth in relation to institutional and social progress
Physical Description:xiii, 360 p ill
ISBN:9781848442283
1848442289
9781781000595