Gateway to Think Tanks
来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w18588 |
来源ID | Working Paper 18588 |
Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil | |
Lee J. Alston; Marcus Melo; Bernardo Mueller; Carlos Pereira | |
发表日期 | 2012-12-06 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and argue that beliefs are a major determinant of which equilibrium results. We show that changes in beliefs may shift the equilibrium in a country over time. We present evidence that beliefs are typically very stable over time, yet argue that Brazil has recently undergone a dramatic shift in beliefs which we show is associated with a change in the country's social contract in the past thirty years. The transition from one social contract to another has taken place through a process which we call 'dissipative inclusion', where redistribution and social inclusion are effectively achieved but accompanied by distortions, inefficiencies and rent dissipation. |
主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Other ; Economic Systems |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18588 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576262 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lee J. Alston,Marcus Melo,Bernardo Mueller,et al. Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil. 2012. |
条目包含的文件 | ||||||
文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
w18588.pdf(447KB) | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。