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1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Innovation and Increasing Retums to Scale

Author : Kenneth J. Arrow

Published in: Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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There has been a long tradition, going back to Adam Smith (1776), that technological progress is somehow intrinsically associated with increasing Retums. In more recent times, this connection has been emphasized by Young (1928), Nicholas Kaldor (1957), and, still more recently, by Arrow (1962), Shell (1966), and Romer (1990). There is, however, more than one interpretation of the relation.

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Title
Innovation and Increasing Retums to Scale
Author
Kenneth J. Arrow
Copyright Year
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26255-7_24