Economic Growth and Income Inequality

Kuznets, S. (1955). Economic Growth and Income Inequality. American Economic Review, 45(1), 1-28.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1955

Link

https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/top20/45.1.1-28.pdf

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Inverted-U Response
  • Economics: the Laffer curve (revenue versus tax rate), the Kuznets curve (inequality versus development), and the environmental Kuznets curve (pollution versus income) are inverted-U claims, contested in the location of the peak but agreed in shape.

    This sourceOriginal presentation of the inverted-U relationship between economic development and income inequality (the Kuznets curve).

Domain-specific

• Environmental Kuznets curve
  • The name borrows the shape — though not the mechanism — of Simon Kuznets's earlier inverted-U hypothesis about income inequality and development

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