Endogenous distribution, politics, and the growth-equity tradeoff

Contributions to Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Das, Satya P ^a   Ghate, Chetan ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Distributive conflict; Endogenous growth; Median voter; Redistributive policy; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944342392     PISSN: 15346005     EISSN: 15346005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6005.1199     Document Type: Article

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