Income Distribution, Growth, and Conflict: The Aggregate Demand Nexus

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2008-6

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Onaran, Özlem

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This paper is a literature review on the recent Post-Keynesian empirical findings about the effect of income distribution on investment and growth in a variety of different countries and aims at discussing the policy implications of this literature. The core question is the following: Are actual economies wageled or profit-led? Current orthodoxy implicitly assumes that they are profit-led, and thus supports the neoliberal policy agenda. The merit of the Post- Keynesian/Kaleckian models is that they highlight the dual function of wages as a component of aggregate demand as well as a cost item. If an economy is not profit-led, then there is room for policies targeting growth and income distribution simultaneously. However, the economies are indeed dynamic in the sense that beyond a point an economy can shift from a wage-led to a profit-led regime, with an intensified distributional conflict.

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Distribution, Demand, Investment, Consumption, Foreign Trade, Macroeconomics, Keynesian Economics.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58431

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ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi

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Department of Economics, Article

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Ö. Onaran, “Income Distribution, Growth, and Conflict: The Aggregate Demand Nexus,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 209–224, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58431.