Visions of inequality : from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War

Author(s)

• Milanović, Branko

Bibliographic Information

Visions of inequality : from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War

Branko Milanovic

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023

• : cloth

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• François Quesnay : social classes in a "rich agricultural kingdom"
• Adam Smith : "progress of opulence" and an implicit theory of income distribution
• The Ricardian windfall : David Ricardo and the absence of the equity-efficiency trade-off
• Karl Marx : the decreasing rate of profit, but constant pressure on labor incomes
• Vilfredo Pareto: from classes to individuals
• Simon Kuznets : inequality during modernization
• The long eclipse of inequality studies during the Cold War

Details

• NCID: BD04647869
• ISBN:
  • 9780674264144
• LCCN: 2022062085
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 359 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB523
  • DC23 : 339.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics -- History
  • LCSH : Income distribution -- History
  • LCSH : Equality -- Economic aspects -- History