The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic DevelopmentWith A Mathematical Appendix

Albert Hirschman and Michael Rothschild

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973, vol. 87, issue 4, 544-566

Abstract: I. Gratification over advances of others: the tunnel effect introduced, 545. — II. Some evidence, 548. — III. Consequences for integration and revolution, 550. — IV. From gratification to indignation, 552. — V. The tunnel effect: social, historical, cultural, and institutional determinants of its strength, 553. — VI. An alternative reaction: apprehension over advances of others, 559. — VII. Concluding remarks, 560. — Mathematical appendix, 562.

Date: 1973
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