Income distribution, growth, and conflict: the aggregate demand nexus
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Onaran, Özlem 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-9922 and Stockhammer, Engelbert
(2008)
Income distribution, growth, and conflict: the aggregate demand nexus.
METU Studies in Development, 35 (1).
pp. 209-224.
ISSN 1010-9935
Abstract
This paper is a literature review on the recent Post-Keynesian empirical findings about the effect of income distribution on investment and growth in a variety of different countries and aims at discussing the policy implications of this literature. The core question is the following: Are actual economies wage-led or profit-led? Current orthodoxy implicitly assumes that they are profit-led, and thus supports the neoliberal policy agenda. The merit of the Post-Keynesian/Kaleckian models is that they highlight the dual function of wages as a component of aggregate demand as well as a cost item. If an economy is not profit-led, then there is room for policies targeting growth and income distribution simultaneously. However, the economies are indeed dynamic in the sense that beyond a point an economy can shift from a wage-led to a profit-led regime, with an intensified distributional conflict.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | income distribution, growth, aggregate demand |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Pre-2014 Departments: | School of Business |
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| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2016 09:22 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/9039 |
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