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Peter H. Lindert
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 126
Citations - 9756
Peter H. Lindert is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic inequality & Inequality. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 126 publications receiving 9470 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter H. Lindert include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Capital in the 21st Century
Andrew Haldane,Rachana Shanbhogue,Orazio Attanasio,Timothy Besley,Timothy Besley,Timothy Besley,Peter H. Lindert,Peter H. Lindert,Thomas Piketty,Jaume Ventura +9 more
TL;DR: A discussion forum based around Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the twenty-first century, with a number of economists from academia, public sector bodies and private sector institutions was held at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Bank of England.
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Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century
TL;DR: A minimal theory of social transfers and a guide to the tests for accounting for social spending, jobs and growth in the OECD Appendices is given in this paper, along with an explanation of the rise of mass public schooling.
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Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal
TL;DR: The authors argue that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple correlations suggest, and that the nations that gained the most from globalization are those poor ones that changed their policies to exploit it, while the ones that gain the least did not, or were too isolated to do so.
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The Rise of Social Spending, 1880-1930
TL;DR: A closer look at the dawn of social spending before 1930 as mentioned in this paper reinterprets the timing, sources, and effects of its rise and finds that income growth played less of a role in shaping the rise of social transfers than did democracy, demography, and religion.