The Price of Inequality

By Joseph E. Stiglitz. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Parallel efficiency–equity debates have emerged across several sectors, to interrogate the broader relationships among human capital, equality of opportunity, and economic prosperity (Stiglitz 2012).”
• Shifting horizons in local and regional development (2017, background): “Stiglitz (2013) and especially Piketty (2014) have drawn attention to the increasing wealth gap between the top 1% and those at the bottom of the income pyramid.”
• The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand (2019, background): “24See, for example, Acemoglu and Robinson (2012) and Stiglitz (2012) on the political implications of economic inequality.”
• Economic Growth, Financial Development, and Income Inequality in BRICS Countries: Does Kuznets’ Inverted U-Shaped Curve Exist? (2018, background): “Furthermore, it has been argued that high inequality weakens the potency of the economy and promotes economic instability (Stiglitz 2012).”
• Declining Labor and Capital Shares (2020, background): “…capital accumulation (Piketty (2014), Piketty and Zucman (2014)), globalization (Elsby, Hobijn, and Şahin (2013)), a decline in the bargaining power of labor (Blanchard and Giavazzi (2003), Bental and Demougin (2010), Stiglitz (2012)), and an increase in the cost of housing (Rognlie (2015)).”
• Micro and macro policies in the Keynes+Schumpeter evolutionary models (2016, positive): “12This is in line with the intuitions of Stiglitz (2012) and Piketty (2014) about the existence of a vicious downward spiral of excessive inequality and economic instability.”
• Entrepreneurial cyclical dynamics of open innovation (2018, background): “In the United States, the price of inequality, which is to say a kind of non-dynamic balance, also appeared in the growth of the economy after the 1980s and until the twenty-first century (Stiglitz 2012).”