Innovation and inequality : how does technical progress affect workers? /

Innovation and inequality : how does technical progress affect workers? /

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Author / Creator:	Saint-Paul, Gilles, author.
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on. Technological innovations. Income distribution. Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. Income distribution. Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on. Technological innovations. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11194555

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Varying Form of Title:	Innovation & inequality How does technical progress affect workers
ISBN:	9781400824779 140082477X 1282129619 9781282129610 9780691128306 0691128308
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190). Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Saint-Paul, Gilles. Innovation and inequality. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691128306 0691128308

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).
ISBN:	9781400824779 140082477X 1282129619 9781282129610 9780691128306 0691128308