Structural economic dynamics : a theory of the economic consequences of human learning
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Structural economic dynamics : a theory of the economic consequences of human learning
Cambridge University Press, 1993
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 177-181
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a theoretical investigation of the influence of human learning on the development through time of a 'pure labour' economy. The theory proposed is a simple one, but aims to grasp the essential features of all industrial economies. Economists have long known that two basic phenomena lie at the root of long-term economic movements in industrial societies: capital accumulation and technical progress. Attention has been concentrated on the former. In this book, by contrast, technical progress is assigned the central role. Within a multi-sector framework, the author examines the structural dynamics of prices, production and employment (implied by differentiated rates of productivity growth and expansion of demand) against a background of 'natural' relations. He also considers a number of institutional problems. Institutional and social learning, know-how, and the diffusion of knowledge emerge as the decisive factors accounting for the success and failure of industrial societies.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of symbols
- 1. Economic theory and the neglect of structural change
- 2. A pure labour production economy
- 3. Proportional dynamics
- 4. Structural dynamics
- 5. The evolving structure and level of prices
- 6. Consumption, savings, rate of interest and inter-temporal distribution of income
- 7. On the evolving structure of long-term development
- 8. From the 'actual' towards the 'natural' economic system - the role of institutions
- 9. Boundedness of economic systems, and international economic relations
- References
- Index.
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