The literature on 'horizontal innovation' claims to analyse the cases where unbounded endogenous growth comes from an increasing variety of intermediate goods. The present paper contends that a good sample of representative models in this literature share two essential assumptions regarding...

I identify and correct some logical problems of the 1990 Romer model of horizontal innovation. The model's setting where all the produced inputs are durable is inconsistent with the proposed Dixit-Stiglitz production function; also, Romer's "accounting measure of capital" (and its variants in...

The paper sets up an analytical framework which is based on simplified balance sheets of the banking, the non-banking private and the government sectors, in order to identify four primary routes through which money can be generated endogenously and to discuss their characteristics. These routes...

This paper surveys the research trends and activities abroad and in Korea since 1980s in the area of '(Non-Marxian) non-mainstream economics', mainly classified into Sraffian Economics and Post-Keynesian Economics. Research in Sraffian Economics is examined under the topics of long-period...

Ciccarone (2004) attempts to show that the Pasinetti theorem allows for the profit-making financial sector. In this effort, however, he ends up with unwittingly associating the theorem with the Wicksellian monetary theory. The present note traces the origin of this uncomfortable association to...

A nondurable producer good that incurs no interest cost, which implies the instantaneous period of production, is a feature of many important models. We investigate various issues arising from this feature: counting the uncountably infinite (pace Cantor), modeling time as two infinitely distant...

A typical horizontal innovation model has three sequentially connected sectors. I argue that this structure of the model necessitates the compounding of interest on an input that goes through multiple production periods before the final good is produced. This aspect is missed (or deliberately...