Jeffrey G. Williamson

Did British Capitalism Breed Inequality? (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. This thirteen-chapter title is divided into three parts and concludes with five appendices, references, and index. The first part focuses on income inequality and the historical state of wages. The second begins the discussion on the driving forces of economic inequality and equilibrating factors. The third provides a model for inequality in a resource-scarce open economy with data, theory, and debate. Appropriate for economic students and those interested in British economic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136588952
• Artikelnr.: 39993694

Autorenporträt

Williamson, Jeffrey G. Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Inhaltsangabe

1. The issues Part I 2. Real wages and standard of living 3. Earnings
inequality, skill scarcity and the structure of pay 4. Income inequality
Part II 5. What drives inequality? 6. Disequilibrating factor demand: The
industrialization bias 7. Equilibrating supply: men, machines and skills
Part III 8. Modeling inequality in a resource-scarce open economy 9. Fact
or fiction? 10. Accounting for the Kuznets Curve, 1821-1911 11. Why was
British growth so slow before the 1820s? 12. Inequality, industrialization
and the standard of living during wartime: conjectures 13. Data, theory and
debate Appendices