Origins of increasing returns /
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Blackwell,
c1993.
|
| Materias: |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction.
- I. Searching for increasing returns. 1. On investing in specialized human capital to attain increasing returns.
- 2. On economic history in extending economics.
- 3. The value of the ability to deal with disequilibria.
- 4. Increases in the value of human time.
- II. Less dependency on natural resources. 1. The declining economic importance of agricultural land.
- 2. Connections between natural resources and increases in income.
- 3. Land in economic growth.
- III. Augmenting resources by organized research. 1. Value of research and endogenous agricultural technology.
- 2. Politics and economics of research.
- 3. Distortions of economic research.
- 4. Economic policy research for agriculture.
- 5. Entrepreneurship in organized research.
- IV. Origins of modern agriculture. 1. Modernizing traditional agriculture.
- 2. Economics. agriculture and the political economy.
- 3. Efficient allocation of brains in modernizing world agriculture.
- 4. Economics of agricultural productivity in low income countries.
- 5. The changing economy and the family.
- V. Government, economics and politics. 1. Role of government in promoting increases in income.
- 2. Tensions between economics and politics.