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| Title: | | Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development  |
| Authors: | | Galor, Oded |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper, Brown University, Department of Economics 2011-7 |
| Abstract: | | Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics, dismissed the Classical hypothesis and promoted the viewpoint that the study of income distribution has no importance for the understanding of macroeconomic activity and the growth process. A metamorphosis in these perspectives has taken place in the past two decades. Theory and subsequent empirical evidence have demonstrated that income distribution has a significant impact on the growth process. |
| Subjects: | | Education Gender Gap Human capital Income distribution Inequality Development Unified Growth Theory |
| JEL: | | O10 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, Brown University
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