Income Distribution, Macroeconomic Analysis, and Barriers to Full Employment

The distribution of income is conspicuous by its absence from most mainstream macroeconomic analysis.
Visiting Scholar Malcolm Sawyer, of the University of Leeds, makes an effort to remedy this situation by
discussing three aspects of the relationship between macroeconomics and the distribution of income: the effect
of conflicts over the distribution of income on the NAIRU (nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment),
the effect of the distribution of income on aggregate demand, and the effect of monetary policy on the
distribution of income.