Economic Science: From the Ideal Gas Law Economy to Piketty and Beyond

Edward Song

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Abstract: I start with income and wealth inequality data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Thomas Piketty, and propose approaches taken from science (for example, behavioral evolution theory,) that might be useful in explaining the data and forecasting future economic events. Using a modified production function developed by Robert Solow, I also explore redistributive effects of income when biological restrictions lead to minimum expenditure requirements and satiation conditions. I conclude that redistributing income from the wealthy to the poor can have counter-cyclical effects in recessions. Moreover, redistribution in the form of human capital can have particularly large positive economic growth effects. Finally, I explain how financial crisis may lead to large economic downturns by proposing a model where productive capital formation is dependent on debt financing.

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Behavioral Macroeconomics; Econophysics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E22 E23 E27 E3 E32 Y90 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-16
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