Macroeconomic Problems and Policies of Income Distribution: Functional, Personal, International

by Paul Davidson (Editor), Jan A. Kregel (Editor)

This important book provides an understanding and appreciation of the current problems of income distribution in various nations around the world. The essays run from theory to policy, from domestic to international perspectives and throughout an attempt is made to integrate personal distribution with macroeconomic theory. The book successfully demonstrates why economists should consider the theory of income distribution as part of the origins of theory and applied research in economics.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

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Davidson did not originally choose economics as a profession. His primary training was in chemistry, for which he got a BSc from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he worked in that same university as an instructor in physiology and chemistry. He soon switched to economics, receiving his MBA from the City University of New York in 1955, and completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

He has taught economics at University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Bristol University, University of Cambridge, and the University of Tennessee. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Schwartz Center For Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and is currently an Emeritus Holly Professor of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is especially known for promoting a Post Keynesian school of macroeconomics. He and Sidney Weintraub founded the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics in 1978. He is the Editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.