Technological Development: Models of Economic Growth and Distribution of Income

Askar Akaev, Askar Sarygulov () and Valentin Sokolov ()
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Askar Akaev: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Askar Sarygulov: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Valentin Sokolov: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics

A chapter in The Economics of Digital Transformation, 2021, pp 45-65 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The economic development of vanguard countries during the last 40 years contributed to a large disturbance of the two key empirical regularities that underlie neoclassical economic theory: the effect of the “Bowley Law” or one of the “stylized facts” of Kaldor, is becoming increasingly less apparent; there is more and more empirical evidence that the famous Kuznets curve is no longer valid. Income inequality is growing in all developed countries, particularly in those like the USA, Great Britain, and Canada. Hence, it should be expected that a new stage of technological development, in the form of digital technologies, will contribute to the reinforcement of these trends. We propose modified neoclassical models of income growth and distribution, which take into account the new empirical regularities. Our results clearly show that if state institutions do not interfere with existing trends in the increase of inequality, then its growth will continue as there are no endogenous economic mechanisms that could restrict this process.

Keywords: Empirical patterns; Income inequality; Technological development income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59959-1_4

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