The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural break often associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embed the idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technological knowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...

Der Begriff „Wachstum“ gehört zu den schillernden Schlagwörtern des politischen Alltags.2 Wachstum ist gut, und vieles scheint in Gefahr, wenn Wachstum ausbleibt. So führt Bundeskanzlerin Merkel in ihrer Regierungserklärung vom 10. November 2009 zum Beginn der neuen Legislaturperiode...

The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural breakoften associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embedthe idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technologicalknowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...

The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural break often associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embed the idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technological knowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...