I don't have access to the article right now, only the abstract. Brian J. L. Berry, Euel Elliott and Edward J. Harpham. 1995. "Long Swings in American Inequality: The Kuznets Conjecture Revisited." Papers in Regional Science, 74: 2 (April): pp. 153-74. In the two hundred year history of American macroeconomic development there have been four great surges in inequality. Each followed a stagflation crisis and was accompanied by a turn of the electorate to more conservative commercially-oriented candidates for the presidency and congress. Each surge was followed, in turn, by an egalitarian backlash in which a political agenda dominated by technological innovation, efficiency and growth was replaced by one concerned with social innovation, equity and redistribution. These interlocking macroeconomic and political rhythms point to a long-wave reinterpretation of the Kuznets conjecture on the relations of inequality and economic growth within the context of a continuing dialectic between capitalism and democracy in America. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
