Innovation and Inequality : How Does Technical Progress Affect Workers? /

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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
Autor principal: Saint-Paul, Gilles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ongelijkheid.
Welvaartseconomie.
Vervreemding.
Vernieuwing.
Technological innovations.
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on.
Income distribution.
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Revenu > Repartition.
Innovations.
Marche du travail > Effets des innovations sur.
Personnel > Effets des innovations sur.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 been jeopardized by a worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. Innovation and Inequality examines why. Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying tre.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400824779

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