Public goods are traditionally classified according to an exogenous, technological definition of possessing the characteristics of nonrivalry and nonexcludability. This paper takes a more endogenous approach, where goods are defined by the political purposes that specific actors have revolving...

This paper models the relationship between innovation and sustained economic growth through as being mediated by institutions that calibrate a 'structure of technological production' analogous to capital-based models of the structure of production. Our framework discusses two types of capital:...