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Technical Change and the Evolution of Class Conscious Norms

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  • Peter Hans Matthews

    (Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT 05753 peter.h.matthews@middlebury.edu)

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Using a variant of the Michl-Baldani (2000) model of technical change as a strategic choice, this paper describes alternative foundations for the achievement of "positive class consciousness." The first is based on the Folk Theorem(s) of repeated games, while the second views the robust establishment of certain norms as the prerequisite for such conciousness.

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  • Peter Hans Matthews, 2000. "Technical Change and the Evolution of Class Conscious Norms," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 32(3), pages 470-481, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:32:y:2000:i:3:p:470-481
    DOI: 10.1177/048661340003200312
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