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Economic Growth Theory
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Economic Growth Theory

by Wei-Bin Zhang
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
13h 11m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 10 New Growth Theories and Monopolistic Competition

The previous two chapters deal with issues related to growth with endogenous human capital and knowledge. Although knowledge is not treated as an exogenous variable, these models have a common limitation if one wants to know in the microeconomic level about what are the motives for private companies to make innovation and for individuals to get educated. For instance, in the previous chapter, knowledge stock, Z(t), receives no compensation, and every individual is assumed to be free to exploit the entire stock of Z(t). Although these models are congruous with that technological change drives economic growth and the knowledge is a nontrivial good, they don't explain why profit-maximizing ...

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