This study points out to a contradiction between increasing returns to scale assumption and steady-state or long run equilibrium or balanced growth analysis in models of endogenous growth. The paper reminds the necessity of the constant returns to scale assumption in models of economic growth,...

The purpose of this study is to examine relationship among returns to scale, returns to factors and the shape of the production possibility frontier under Cobb–Douglas production function. The study asks the following question: How can production possibility frontier be drawn (a) if returns to...

Traditional sources of growth studies generally assume that the nature of technological progress is Hicks-neutral. However, the nature of technological progress compatible with steady state conditions is Harrod-neutral rather than Hicks-neutral. This study thus investigates sources of growth for...

This study assumes that a regulative authority imposes hybrid goal functions to the economy. Then, firms' behavior and economic growth occur with the help of that function. In the light of this assumption, the first aim of this paper is to show that a firm's objective function cannot be only...