Structural dynamics and economic growth / edited by Richard Arena and Pier Luigi Porta.

"Ever since Adam Smith, economists have been preoccupied with the puzzle of economic growth. The mainstream neo-classical models of growth that have largely dominated modern growth theory are based around assumptions of diminishing returns on extra capital with technological innovation and appr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Arena, R. (Richard), Porta, Pier Luigi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: structural economic dynamics and contemporary growth theory / Richard Arena and Pier Luigi Porta
  • Part I. Structural Dynamics: Past and Present: 1. Structural change: some historical aspects with special reference to classical economics / Peter Groenewegen
  • 2. Structural dynamics in an historical perspective / Mario Pomini
  • 3. Two approaches to the study of structural change and economic development: Kuznets and Pasinetti / Moshe Syrquin
  • 4. Analyzing knowledge flows by means of vertical integration / Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen
  • 5. Growth: towards a structural endogenous macro-model / William J. Baumol
  • Part II. Structural Dynamics: The Cambridge Keynesian Perspective: 6. Luigi Pasinetti: the senior living heir of the Cambridge school of economics and the last of the great system-builders / Geoffrey Harcourt
  • 7. Toward a synthesis in post-Keynesian economics in Luigi Pasinetti's contribution / Heinrich Bortis
  • 8. Growth theory, structural dynamics and the analysis of consumption / Davide Gualerzi
  • 9. Luigi Pasinetti's structural economic dynamics and the employment consequences of new technologies / Harald Hagemann
  • 10. The concept of 'natural economic system': a tool for structural analysis and an instrument for policy design / Roberto Scazzieri
  • 11. Structural change and invariable standards / Takashi Yagi
  • Part III. Epilogue: Structural dynamics as part of the 'unfinished revolution': on Pasinetti and the unfinished Keynesian revolution / Robert M. Solow
  • First afterword: Pasinetti on structural dynamics / Robert M. Solow
  • Growth and structural change: perspectives for the future / Luigi L. Pasinetti
  • Second afterword: the significance of structural economic dynamics / Luigi L. Pasinetti.