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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner …
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320105
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Keynes und die Zukunft der Enkel
Pies, Ingo - 2013
Im Jahr 1930 veröffentlichte Keynes einen Aufsatz über die Zukunft der Enkel, in dem er die Lösung des ökonomischen Problems und mithin das Ende der bisherigen Menschheitsgeschichte prognostizierte. Diese Prognose und die zahlreichen Implikationen, die Keynes aus ihr herleitete, werden hier...
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
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On Growth and the Direction of Technological Change
Lindenberger, Dietmar - 2003
Recent econometric analyses of growth in industrialized countries reveal that energy?s elasticity of production systematically exceeds its factor cost share, whereas for labor the opposite holds. The paper reviews these analyses that reflect the observed direction of technological change towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263196
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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper … growth, and the way in which economics literature has dealt with this issue over time. The structure of this survey … distinguishes between different decades and it identifies the key debates in the economics literature in each period. Although …
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United States economy, the evidence for other countries is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
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Improving Credibility by Delegating Judicial Competence: The Case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Voigt, Stefan; Ebeling, Michael; Blume, Lorenz - 2004
It is argued that government credibility is an important resource and that it can be improved by delegating decision-making competence beyond the nation-state. It is hypothesized that such delegation should result in higher income and growth. Some former British colonies retained the Judicial...
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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