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Social Classes and Equilibrium
2013
Bogazici Journal
This essay develops a simple worker-capitalist model. We first show that if labor markets clear at low wages then certain produced commodities are over-supplied due to inadequate demand. This implies that any voluntary trade between firms and consumers is Pareto-inefficient. Nonetheless, this inefficiency can be rectified by a Pareto-improving income transfer from capitalists to workers. We claim that these results point out an efficiency enhancing role for welfare state, and demonstrate
doi:10.21773/boun.27.1.4
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