Call number:
PIK B 160-15-0099
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction ; Chapter 1: Some problems with the aggregate production function ; Chapter 2: The aggregate production function: behavioural relationship or accounting identity? ; Chapter 3: Simulation studies, the aggregate production function and the accounting identity ; Chapter 4: 'Are there laws of production?' The work of Cobb and Douglas and its early reception ; Chapter 5: Solow's 'Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function', and the accounting identity ; Chapter 6: What does total factor productivity actually measure? Further observations on the Solow model ; Chapter 7: Why are some countries richer than others? A sceptical view of Mankiw-Romer-Weil's test of the neoclassical growth model ; Chapter 8: Some problems with the neoclassical dual-sector growth model ; Chapter 9: Is capital special? The role of the growth of capital and its externality effect in economic growth ; Chapter 10: Problems posed by the accounting identity for the estimation of the degree of market power and the mark-up ; Chapter 11: Are estimates of labour demand functions mere statistical artefacts? ; Chapter 12: Why have criticisms of the aggregate production function generally been ignored? On further misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the implications of the accounting identity
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
VII, 388 S. : graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9781840642551
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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