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-defined knowledge of our preferences, all possible states of the world, all possible actions (our "technologies"), the mappings among …
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innovating with respect to their understandings of the world in which they operate, the technologies they master, their … technological evolution; (ii) The theory of the firm in evolving environments; (iii) The formalization of learning processes; (iv …) the theory of production; (v) consumption patterns; (vi) economic interactions and the working of markets; and, (vii) The …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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In this chapter we discuss the role of natural resources and endowment structures on structural change. Departing from theories of trade that stress specialization according to one's comparative advantages as the key route to development, we articulate an alternative point of view on the role of...
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In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....
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This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to interventions are permitted to be heterogeneous in a general way and agents...
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The behavioral theory of the firm has been acknowledged as one of the most fundamental pillars on which evolutionary … theory of organizations (and business firms in particular), and we suggest that evolutionary theory should coherently embrace …
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