Beschreibung:
The principal aim of BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC CONSERVATION LAWS is twofold: to reveal the new economic significance of the old concept of biased technical change and the current application of the new concept of economic conservation laws.
"Productivity of inputs is an important determinant of the competitiveness of firms in national and international markets. Productivity growth arises from deliberate decisions to innovate but the technological opportunities could be such that different inputs would have different rates of growth. Previous literature has mostly concentrated on labor productivity but empirical studies indicate that productivity of capital is also increasing. One of the objectives of this book is to examine the difference or bias in the productivity growth of the two inputs.
An Overview.- An Overview.- Biased Technical Change.- The Stability of the Solow-Swan Model with Biased Technical Change.- A Model of Optimal Economic Growth with Endogenous Bias.- A Three Sector Model of Endogenous Hicksian Bias.- Estimation of Biased Technical Progress.- A Note on Modelling Endogenous Growth.- Technical Change and International Competition.- Economic Conservation Laws.- Optimal Economic Growth: Test of Income/Wealth Conservation Laws in OECD Countries.- Economic Conservation Laws as Indices of Corporate Performance.- Empirical Tests of the Total Value Conservation Law of the Firm.- Hartwick's Rule and Economic Conservation Laws.