Das Wirtschaftswachstum und die wirtschaftliche Effektivität der Produktionsind Kernfragen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft. Ihr Erreichenist objektiv begründet und geht aus den Gesetzen, Prinzipien und Anforderungender Marktwirtschaft hervor. Die Ressourcenknappheit und die...

Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...

Dieser Beitrag enthält eine Rezension des im Jahr 2009 veröffentlichten wirtschaftshistorischen Buches von Jack A. Goldstone mit dem Titel: „Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850“.

This paper develops a fully-endogenous, variety-expansion growth model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity, limit pricing, and an endogenous distribution of markups.Trade induces only firms with high-quality products to export, whereas firms with low-quality products serve only the domestic...

We examine associations of mass media and information and communicationstechnologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on some economicdevelopment outcomes. We .nd that several mass media and ICT penetration variablesare negatively associated with three development outcomes: corruption,...