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Daily Kos :: News Community Action INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Finance & Development, September 2011 - Equality and Efficiency Finance & Development, September 2011, Vol. 48, No. 3 Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry PDF version Is there a trade-off between the two or do they go hand in hand? IN his influential 1975 book Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, Arthur Okun argued that pursuing equality can reduce efficiency (the total output produced with given resources). Do societies inevitably face an invidious choice between efficient production and equitable wealth and income distribution? In a word, no. In recent work (Berg, Ostry, and Zettelmeyer, 2011; and Berg and Ostry, 2011), we discovered that when growth is looked at over the long term, the trade-off between efficiency and equality may not exist. Inequality matters for growth and other macroeconomic outcomes, in all corners of the globe. How do economies grow? The experiences in developing and emerging economies, however, are far more varied (see Chart 2). Income distribution and growth sustainability Hazard to sustained growth Cameroon is typical.
Modern Money Mechanics Modern Money Mechanics From Wikisource Jump to: navigation, search Modern Money Mechanics[edit] A Workbook on Bank Reserves and Deposit Expansion Introduction Bank Deposits—How They Expand or Contract Deposit Contraction Bank Reserves—How They Change When Currency Returns to Banks, Reserves Rise Changes in U.S. Changes in Federal Reserve Float Changes in Service-Related Balances and Adjustments An Increase in Required Clearing Balances Reduces Reserve Balances Changes in Loans to Depository Institutions Retrieved from " Categories: Hidden category: Pages with override author Navigation menu Personal tools Namespaces Variants Views Actions Purge Navigation Display options Tools Download/print Languages This page was last modified on 2 February 2013, at 19:27.
Paying Nothing, Conservative Style By Matthew Yglesias on October 11, 2011 at 4:44 pm "Paying Nothing, Conservative Style" Here’s Matt Labash and the Weekly Standard trying to mislead you about taxation and the income distribution: You’re either part of “us,” the “99 percent” (as all the surrounding signage identifies us), or you’re part of “them” — the rapacious 1 percent, who are purportedly strangling our nation by holding roughly one-third of its wealth, even if they also pay 38 percent of all federal income taxes while the bottom 47 percent of the population pay nothing (a Revolution is no place for facts and figures). You might as well say that the 20 percent of Americans who smoke cigarettes regularly pay 95 percent of federal tobacco excise taxes while 70 percent of the population pays nothing. The genius of the conservative rhetorical move here is that most people think of the taxes that you pay when you “do your taxes” in April as being your income taxes.
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