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The Poverty of Growth with Interdependent Utility Functions

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  • John Komlos
  • Peter Salamon

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We argue that with interdependent utility functions growth can lead to a decline in total welfare of a society if the gains from growth are sufficiently unequally distributed in the presence of negative externalities, i.e., envy.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 1470.

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Date of creation: 2005
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_1470

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Keywords: interdependent utility functions; growth; inequality;

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