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Wants and Past Knowledge: Growth Cycles with Emerging Industries

Horii, Ryo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a theory of endogenous growth cycles focusing on the interaction between consumers' desire to …

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The Optimal Control of Technology Choices

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

We may distinguish between two concepts of technology: a theoretical level of technology (that is, a technology possibilities frontier) and a level of technology in practice (that is, ready to use in production technology). Having these two concepts in mind, the paper develops an intertemporal...

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RESOURCE INTRA-ACTIONS AND INTER-ACTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2005

enriched economic growth theory. However, both object- idea gaps, and factor-force specialization do not make explicit intra …

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The Information Technology Revolution and the Puzzling Trends in Tobin’s average q

Peralta-Alva, Adrian - EconWPA - 2005

-1974, its subsequent stagnation and eventual recovery. This paper employs general equi- librium theory to test whether this good …

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Space, Growth and Technology: an Integrated Dynamic Approach

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124884

From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

development across most of human history induced growth theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single … between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory reveals the underlying micro foundations that are consistent with the … growth process over the entire history of the human species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its …

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Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005

theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single unified framework the epoch of Malthusian stagnation, the … modern era of sustained economic growth, and the recent transition between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory … species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its predictions and its policy implications for the growth …

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

Human brain has invented the Computer&upgraded it to a level of Combrains. With Artificial Chemical Memory, these may grow to function as independent Iintellects, Master/Sponsor representatives and self- decision workers with autonomy&supreme capability. Like any human society learn and function...

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Digital Divide in Estonia and How To Bridge It

Kalkun, Mari; Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004

Estonia is one of the most rapidly developing information societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Still, 61% of the Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons...

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