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Accounting for Inequality

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Piketty’s study of capital and inequality, especially the distribution of the national income through a “capital-labor split,†is examined and compared with a model developed from data sets from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Piketty’s inclusion of executive supersalaries as labor income is questioned as over-estimating labor’s share of national income distribution and labor’s role as a causal factor in the intensification of inequality.

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  • Charles Reitz, 2016. "Accounting for Inequality," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 48(2), pages 310-321, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:48:y:2016:i:2:p:310-321
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613415605075
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    Keywords

    Piketty; inequality; capital-labor split;
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    JEL classification:

    • B24 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist; Scraffian
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
    • P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights

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