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| Varying Form of Title: | Innovation & inequality
How does technical progress affect workers
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| ISBN: | 9781400824779
140082477X
1282129619
9781282129610
9780691128306
0691128308
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and living standards--and the economists were right. Yet in the last three decades, the market economy has been jeopardized by a worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. Innovation and Inequality examines why. Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying tre.
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| Other form: | Print version: Saint-Paul, Gilles. Innovation and inequality. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691128306 0691128308
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