Income Distribution, Market Imperfections and Capital Accumulation in a Developing Economy

• Main Author: Dasgupta, Asim K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Development economics.; Economic growth.; Labor economics.; Urban economics.; Population.; Development Economics.; Economic Growth.; Labor Economics.; Urban Economics.; Population Economics.

The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country. In conventional analyses, such explanations are often found exogenised in terms of factors such as socio-cultural attitudes towards saving and investment, irrationality of peasant behaviour, te...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Characteristics of the Economy
• Chapter 2: The Model
• Chapter 3: Behaviour of the System over Time
• Chapter 4: Significance of the Distribution of Income and Structure of Credit Market
• Chapter 5: Different Ways of Resolving the Crisis
• Chapter 6: Some Other Results in the Literature
• Chapter 7: Generalisations.