01812cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002773 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451850031 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Tabellini, Guido. Growth, Distribution and Politics / Guido Tabellini, Torsten Persson. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1991. 1 online resource (19 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We start by arguing that to understand growth differences across countries and time, one needs to understand differences in public policies that affect the incentives for productive accumulation of capital, human capital, or technically useful knowledge. And to understand policy differences one needs to understand how political institutions aggregate conflicting interests into public policies. We then survey some recent work along these lines, which argues that more inequality leads to slower growth. Next, we illustrate some of the basic ideas of this work, by help of a simple model of taxation. We also present some econometric cross-country evidence, which is largely supportive of the basic ideas. We end by suggestions for further work. Mode of access: Internet Persson, Torsten. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1991/078 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1991/078/001.1991.issue-078-en.xml IMF e-Library