The Origins of Inequality

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Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003.

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This book gathers together and extends to new frontiers Joseph Stiglitz's lifelong work, drawing upon the challenges and insights of each of these phases of his career.

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• Part I. Broader Perspectives

• 1: A Rigged Economy and What We Can Do About It

• 2: The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It

• 3: Inequality and Economic Growth

• 4: Alternative Theories of Inequality: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

• 5: Rewriting the Rules of the Economy and the Shaping of American Inequality

• 6: Wealth and Income Distribution: New Theories Needed for a New Era

• 7: Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal

• Part II. The Basic Theory

• 8: Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals

• 9: Intergenerational Transfers and Inequality

• 10: Explaining the New Stylized Facts of Growth and Distribution

• 11: Generalizing the Basic Model: Inequalities in Equilibrium Wealth Among Individuals with Heterogeneous Abilities and General Intertemporal Preferences

• 12: Equilibrium Income and Wealth Distributions: Balancing Centrifugal and Centripetal forces

• 13: The Role of Life Cycle Savings vs. Inherited Savings

• 14: The Role of Land and Credit in Creating Wealth Inequality

• 15: The Role of Credit and the Financial System in Creating Wealth Inequality

• 16: Monopoly, Rents, and Political Equilibrium

• 17: Distribution and Innovation (or inequality and innovation)

• 18: The Future of Inequality: Artificial Intelligence, Worker-Replacing Technological Progress and Income Distribution

• 19: Pareto Efficient Taxation and Expenditures: Pre- and Re-distribution

• Part III. Earlier Contributions

• 20: Some Further Results on the Measurement of Inequality

• 21: Simple Formulae for the Measurement of Inequality and the Optimal Linear Income Tax

• 22: Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity

• 23: Reflections on Mobility and Social Justice, Economic Efficiency, and Individual Responsibility

• 24: Remarks on Inequality, Agency Costs, and Economic Efficiency

• 25: Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity and the Dynamics of Inequality

• 26: Landlords, Tenants and Technological Innovations

• 27: Inequality and Growth

• 28: A Two-Sector, Two Class Model of Economic Growth

• 29: Capital, Wages and Structural Unemployment

• 30: Inequality and the Business Cycle

• 31: Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Inequality, and Growth

• 32: Notes on Estate Taxes, Redistribution and the Concept of Balanced Growth Path Incidence

• 33: Equality, Taxation, and Inheritance

• 34: Approaches to the Economics of Discrimination

• 35: Theories of Discrimination and Economic Policy

• 36: Inequality and Taxation

• 37: The Welfare State in the Twenty First Century