[URPE] Economic Inequality and poverty

[Bohmer,Peter]

Can anyone suggest a good book on the causes of inequality and poverty, nationally and globally, that is somewhat up to date, for a lower division class at Evergreen. Please send me suggestions, Thanks, Peter Bohmer
bohmerp at evergreen.edu

my web-page: http://blogs.evergreen.edu/bohmerp



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Subject: [URPE] classical political economy and development
 
Dear List,
I am preparing a class lecture on "Classical Political Economy and  
Development". I wanted to kindly ask if somebody could give me an  
indication of good empirical work on the relationship between  
inequality and growth/accumulation in developing countries.
I find work that emphasizes the capacity of governments to suppress  
labor in order to allow their capitalist class to accumulate (S.  
Korea), but am wondering if there are also empirical cases of more  
equitable growth.
Thanks a lot for your time

With my best wishes
Matthias Thiemann





Quoting Arthur MacEwan <Arthur.Macewan at umb.edu>:

> Can anyone guide me to articles or books that deal with the question of
> who gets the returns to R&D?
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> There is a great deal of literature on the economic returns to R&D.  I
> am, however, unable to find useful material on the distributional
> impacts of R&D - i.e., on who gets the returns.  For example, with
> agricultural R&D and the resulting technological change, it seems that
> some of the returns go to the seed producers and other input producers,
> some goes to "middle-men" (e.g., Archer Daniels Midland), some may go to
> consumers (lower prices), but the farmers don't get much (if anything).
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> It would be nice to see some rigorous studies.  Any suggestions?
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> Thanks.
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> Arthur MacEwan
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> arthur.macewan at umb.edu
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