Institutional and social dynamics of growth and distribution /

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Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2010.
Description:xiii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8065925
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Other authors / contributors:Salvadori, Neri.
ISBN:9781848442283 (hbk.)
1848442289 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.