A review by jasonfurman
The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution by Samuel Bowles

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A technical treatment of the ways in which inequality can negatively affect growth, for example through principal-agent models in which imperfect information leads to incomplete contracts that are suboptimal in the presence of inequality (e.g., sharecropping models or too much expensive monitoring). Links these models to some intriguing data on the correlation of "guard labor" to inequality across countries and across cities.