This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...

The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...

Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird untersucht, ob die Volkswirtschaftslehre einen Beitrag zur theoretischen Fundierung einer vorausschauend lenkenden Strukturpolitik leisten kann. Zu diesem Zweck werden vier ausgewählte Theorien auf ihre Eignung als Basis einer vorausschauend lenkenden...

In this paper we are going to analyze the dynamics of barriers to entry at the international level. In our model economic development takes place and continues in the long run due to the emergence of new sectors, which can compensate for the diminishing ability of mature sectors to create...