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The attitude of indifference to income
distribution
is in fact a recipe for economic growth without end, with the rich, very rich, and super-rich drawing ever further ahead of the rest.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
In order to enjoy the same low transaction costs that they have in exporting, China’s entrepreneurs need a much better business environment: an effective legal system, a sound regulatory framework, a government that protects their brands by fighting intellectual-property theft, dependable logistics and
distribution
networks, and a graft-resistant bureaucracy.
Such polarization fuels rising inequality in the
distribution
of labor income, which in turn drives growth in overall income inequality – a dynamic that many economists, from David Autor to Thomas Piketty, have emphasized.
It is also clear that the West’s future role will depend on how America manages this new
distribution
of power.
This is an important concern, especially given the increasingly skewed income
distribution
in developed countries.
But economists have long understood that the
distribution
of wealth, as John Stuart Mill put it in his Principles of Political Economy, is “a matter of human institution solely.”
In other words, market-based production is one thing;
distribution
is quite another, and it can be influenced by policy.
This includes not only financial deregulation, but also central bank independence, the separation of monetary and fiscal policies, and the assumption that competitive markets require no government intervention to produce an acceptable income distribution, drive innovation, provide necessary infrastructure, and deliver public goods.
How, then, should policymakers confront the new and difficult challenges for employment (and, in turn, for the
distribution
of income and wealth), especially in developed economies?
Across-the-board upgrading of human capital will improve income
distribution
both directly and indirectly (by reducing the supply of lower-skill workers relative to demand).
It will also (partly) mitigate the concentration of wealth that results from a highly skewed income
distribution.
But the rationale for America’s commitment of military force to the region is changing fast; when that happens – as it has in Europe, for example, since the Cold War’s end – the
distribution
of military assets tends to change as well.
Any large change would require an industry-wide shift in packaging and
distribution.
In the United States, rising inequality has been a fact of life at least since the 1970s, when the relatively equitable
distribution
of economic benefits from the early post-World War II era started to become skewed.
With respect to incentives, politicians have not been given a good enough reason to address unequal
distribution
patterns.
The sectoral
distribution
of Chinese firms’ outward investment indicates that there is not even an effective market mechanism at work driving Chinese firms to invest in a rational way.
Second, we need to redistribute wealth to maintain a proper
distribution
of income.
The administration is exploiting a crisis atmosphere to enact a vast agenda that would reengineer the American economy, from autos and financial services to health care, energy, and the
distribution
of income.
By the time the Olympians arrive in six years, the power sector will be fully competitive, with electricity generation separated from
distribution.
It also structures the debate on domestic issues such as income
distribution
and the role of the state, as well as on some of tomorrow’s major challenges, such as global taxation or the future of work.
Arguably, the causes of food shortages are to be found in the organization, distribution, and waste of resources, not population growth.
It has built or is building pipelines to Turkey and Germany, taken over an oil company, and sought footholds in European
distribution
markets.
It is widely believed that America’s income
distribution
is the most unequal among developed economies; but reality is more complicated.
Among developed countries, the US does have the most unequal
distribution
of disposable income after taxes and transfer payments.
Prolonged labor-market slack means falling real wages for most workers, with the negative effect growing as one moves down the wage
distribution.
From 2007 to 2012, US real hourly wages fell for 70% of the wage distribution, with larger losses for those holding lower-wage jobs.
By contrast, real wages increased, albeit at a much slower pace than before the recession, for those in the top 30% of the wage
distribution.
The JAEA has initiated a project to model the future
distribution
of radioactivity on a regional scale, beginning with field investigations to acquire the data that are needed to develop conceptual and mathematical migration models of radiocesium’s environmental behavior.
A change of mindset among development partners is required, along with long-term commitments to building sustainable, diversified, and equitably distributed systems of food production and
distribution.
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