Class Year
2013
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to show that orthodox and heterodox theories of personal income distribution developed in the mid-twentieth century are effectively identical, despite their claims to the contrary. While segmented labor market theory contends that neoclassical theories of personal income distribution, such as human capital theory, ignore the impact of social institutions on the labor market, human capital theory actually implicitly incorporates them. Social institutions are, therefore, just as important in the orthodox approach to personal income distribution. Yet, while this is the case, the heterodox perspective is valuable because of the stress it places on social institutions, the importance of which is not always explicitly recognized in human capital theory.
Recommended Citation
Nichols, Ross A.
(2013)
"On the Orthodox Nature of Heterodox Income Distribution Theory,"
Gettysburg Economic Review: Vol. 7, Article 5.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ger/vol7/iss1/5