Macroeconomic inequality from Reagan to Trump : market power, wage repression, asset price inflation, and industrial decline / Lance Taylor, New School for Social Research, New York, with contributions from Özlem Ömer.

"This book is about the macroeconomics of inequality in the USA, beginning around 1970. The analysis is based on a data framework combining the distributions by size of income and wealth with the income and output sides of the national accounts, flows of funds, and full balance sheet accounting...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Taylor, Lance, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Studies in new economic thinking
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Summary:"This book is about the macroeconomics of inequality in the USA, beginning around 1970. The analysis is based on a data framework combining the distributions by size of income and wealth with the income and output sides of the national accounts, flows of funds, and full balance sheet accounting of real capital and financial claims. The numbers entering the household size distributions are mutually consistent and satisfy double entry national accounting balances, making analysis and modeling roughly right about the big picture of distribution. The picture is 'roughly right' because of the double-entry accounting consistency that goes into its creation"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781108854443
1108854443
DOI:10.1017/9781108854443
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