论文标题
物理学家认为的成长和不平等现象
Growth and inequalities in a physicist's view
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论文摘要
在经济学家,政客和外行人中,仍然是经济增长是我们社会制度的必要性,至少是为了避免分配冲突的必要性。本文挑战了这种信念从纯粹的物理理论观点转移。它正式考虑有限环境对持续增长的前景所施加的约束,包括成本的动力。随着成本增长的速度快于产量,很容易推断出最终不可避免的全球崩溃。然后,分析和讨论在增长和竞争前提下不平等财富份额的演变,这表明不平等的增加是前提的必要结果。
It is still common wisdom amongst economists, politicians and lay people that economic growth is a necessity of our social systems, at least to avoid distributional conflicts. This paper challenges such belief moving from a purely physical theoretical perspective. It formally considers the constraints imposed by a finite environment on the prospect of continuous growth, including the dynamics of costs. As costs grow faster than production it is easy to deduce a final unavoidable global collapse. Then, analyzing and discussing the evolution of the unequal share of wealth under the premises of growth and competition, it is shown that the increase of inequalities is a necessary consequence of the premises.