Chapter 20: The invisible hand and the weightless economy
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Published:
26 Jul 2019
Page Range:
464–472
Collection:
Economics 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110686.00030
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As modern economies grow, production and consumption shift towards economic value that resides in bits and bytes, and away from that embedded in atoms and molecules. This chapter discusses the implications of such changes for the nature of ongoing growth in advanced economies and for the dynamics of earnings and income distributions – polarization, inequality – across people within societies.

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Cover Handbook on Green Growth
Handbook on Green Growth
Edited by
Roger Fouquet
Handbook
Published:
26 Jul 2019
Print ISBN:
9781788110679
eISBN:
9781788110686
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110686
Pages:
c 528
Collection:
Economics 2019
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