Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The planning machine -- Bound capitalism -- The four horsemen of capitalist decline -- 2 WHEN CAPITALISM BECAME MIDDLE-AGED -- The bridges to Maddison...

Weltweit wird Wirtschaftswachstum gefördert, trotz ernsthafter Konflikte mit Nachhaltigkeit und trotz der Tendenz zur säkularen Stagnation. Um zu untersuchen, ob dies „nur“ eine Frage politischen oder persönlichen Willens ist oder „unvermeidlich“ zur Bewahrung ökonomischer...

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for endogenous commodity prices, we find that economic...

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade between two advanced countries in which both innovation and skilled acquisition rates are endogenously determined. The model offers a North-North (as opposed to a North-South) trade explanation for increasing relative wage...