This study first provides an outline of Kaldor's growth model and then tests its relevance to the economic experience of Turkey during the period 1963-2005 by using cointegration and causality tests. Kaldor's first law states that manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, whereas the...

The paper analyses the idea of “secular stagnation” actively discussed in the recent economic literature. It examines the most popular versions of this idea offered by T. Kowen, R. Gordon and L. Summers. Author concludes that in the next decades a slowdown of economic growth in the U.S. is...