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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saint-Paul, Gilles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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