Distribution
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It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal
distribution
of income within firms.
On one hand, there is reason to worry about certain Internet companies’ concentration of market power, particularly in online content and distribution, and about the effects of new technologies on personal privacy, law enforcement, and national security.
They concern disputes over territory, political power, definitions of rights, and
distribution
of wealth.
In fact, the modest measures implemented in response to the changing
distribution
of global power have been limited to the economic realm, with the hard core of international relations – peace and security – remaining the exclusive preserve of a handful of countries.
Developing nations are grasping just how outrageous the current
distribution
of greenhouse-gas emissions really is.
Equality of opportunity – who knows, perhaps even a fairer
distribution
of income – is what the formerly smug, self-assured Davos man left out of the equation.
That is possible only on the Internet, with its vanishingly small
distribution
costs.
To be sure, mini-grids are not meant to operate in isolation for perpetuity; they are at their best when feeding power into larger
distribution
networks.
While a growing number of governments are adopting mini-grid policies, most are still failing to integrate localized generation and
distribution
into national electrification planning.
Most farmland is acquired through hereditary or communal
distribution
systems, and when new plots are allocated, they are typically smaller than those provided to previous generations.
The Third World Center for Water Management estimates that nearly 40% of food produced annually in India is lost, mainly during harvesting and
distribution.
From the end of World War II until 2007, Western political leaders at least acted as if they were interested in achieving full employment, price stability, an acceptably fair
distribution
of income and wealth, and an open international order in which all countries would benefit from trade and finance.
This is partly because the final price of an imported good reflects numerous costs such as
distribution
and marketing, which are unaffected by the exchange rate.
Later, it offered to handle international
distribution
of the final product.
The Complexity of InequalityMUNICH – Since 2013, when Thomas Piketty published his much-discussed study of the
distribution
of income and wealth, inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in most advanced economies, blamed for everything from slow growth and stagnating productivity to the rise of populism and the Brexit vote.
Consider the disparities between the US, Denmark, and Sweden – all three of which are among the world’s most unequal societies, with respect to the
distribution
of wealth.
There is simply little or no empirical evidence that inflation, at the low to moderate rates that have prevailed in recent decades, has any significant harmful real effects on output, employment, growth, or the
distribution
of income.
According to this view, the US is especially well positioned to benefit from rapidly falling prices of information technology, owing to its openness to competition and new ways of doing business, particularly in
distribution.
As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable
distribution
among conflicting needs.
Although their
distribution
is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.”
And yet, when it comes to the
distribution
of income, it performs far less well.
Over the past 30 years, the probability that an American born into the bottom quartile of the income
distribution
will end his life in the top quartile has more than halved.
With support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Nigeria also installed more than 1,600 solar-powered refrigerators, which are critical to ensuring that vaccines remain safe and effective during their long journey through the
distribution
chain.
The most encompassing view is that of the “political-economy” school, which argues that health inequalities are determined by capitalist economies’ hierarchical structure and the associated political choices about resource
distribution.
Bertrand and Morse find that in the years before the crisis, in areas (usually states) where consumption was high among households in the top fifth of the income distribution, household consumption was high at lower income levels as well.
In a study of the congressional vote on the McFadden Act of 1927, which sought to boost competition in lending, Rodney Ramcharan of the US Federal Reserve and I found that legislators from districts with a highly unequal
distribution
of land holdings – farming was the primary source of income in many districts then – tended to vote against the act.
Likewise, the very large European bailouts (totaling as much as 20% of GDP in Germany) have produced controversies about the
distribution
of costs.
Just as they got the recent past right, so they are the ones most likely to get the
distribution
of possible futures right.
There is growing recognition that GDP – which was not intended to measure economic welfare – conflates social costs and benefits, neglects many non-market costs and benefits, and ignores the
distribution
of income.
For example, the Genuine Progress Indicator, which adjusts for income
distribution
and environmental losses, shows that the United States and several other developed economies have not improved their people’s well-being since the late 1970’s.
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