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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.