Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92799 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 715
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We consider three objects of people's status preference, consumption, physical capital holding and money holding, and show that an economy grows or stagnates depending on which object people most seriously take as status. If the main object of status preference is consumption, a steady state with full employment is reached. If it is physical capital (viz. a producible asset), permanent growth with full employment occurs. However, if it is money (viz. an unproducible asset), stagnation with persistent unemployment arises.
Subjects: 
Status Preference
Persistent Unemployment
Long-Run Growth
JEL: 
E12
E24
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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