The Kuznets curve: Yesterday and tomorrow

Understanding Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Piketty, Thomas ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Economic development; Inequality decline; Institutions; Technical change; U curve; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919678145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195305191.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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