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Author Altman, Morris.

Title Economic growth and the high wage economy : choices, constraints and opportunities in the market economy / Morris Altman
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 313 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 158
Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 158.
Contents Free to choose or prisoner of market forces: an introduction to high wage growth -- Introducing X-efficiency theory, rational inefficiency and the political economy of the golden rule -- A behavioral-institutional model of endogenous growth and induced technical change -- Why increasing income inequality is not necessary to economic prosperity -- A behavioral model of path dependency -- Culture as determinant of material welfare -- Sen's capabilities approach and growing economic welfare -- Economic growth, "globalization", and labor power -- Staple theory and export-led growth: constructing differential growth -- Economic freedom and economic growth and development -- A theory of induced institutional change -- Why high wages don't cause unemployment -- When wants are insatiable: a target income theory of labor supply -- Why unemployment insurance can increase economic efficiency
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-303) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wages and labor productivity.
Efficiency wage theory.
Labor market.
Economic development.
Labor demand.
Labor supply.
employing.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Labor supply.
Labor demand.
Economic development.
Efficiency wage theory.
Labor market.
Wages and labor productivity.
Form Electronic book
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