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标题：An Inquiry into the Causes of Increasing Regional Income Inequality in The United States
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作者：Orley M. Amos, Jr.
期刊名称：The Review of Regional Studies
印刷版ISSN：0048-749X
电子版ISSN：1553-0892
出版年度：1989
卷号：19
期号：2
页码：1-12
出版社：Southern Regional Science Association
摘要：This paper explores alternative theoretical explanations of empirical evidence of increasing regional income inequality in the United States since the mid-1970s. Analysis indicates that conventional regional growth theories, including the neoclassical, export base, cumulative causation, and growth pole theories, explain increasing regional inequality by resorting to exogenous forces. Although each of the theories contains key relationships that provide a partial explanation of unbalanced growth and regional inequality, none of them is complete. The theory of long waves, long used in the study of economic cycles, then is examined. Key relationships contained in each of the regional growth theories are synthesized with the long wave explanation to generate a more complete theory of unbalanced regional growth and an endogenous explanation of increasing regional inequality.