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

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 bee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saint-Paul, Gilles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Which Tools Do We Need?
  • 2 Productivity and Wages in Neoclassical Growth Models
  • 3 Heterogeneous Labor
  • 4 Competing Technologies
  • 5 Supply Effects
  • 6 Labor as a Quality Input: Skill Aggregation and Sectoral Segregation
  • 7 The Economics of Superstars
  • 8 Complementarities and Segregation by Skills
  • 9 Demand Effects
  • 10 Nonhomothetic Preferences and the Distributive Effects of Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Epilogue
  • References.