Rent, Resources, Technologies
ISBN:
978-3-642-08530-7
Auflage:
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Verlag:
Springer, Springer Berlin
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.12.2010
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
260
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Rent, resources, and technologies are three crucial issues to the understanding of history and economics. The scarcity of resources, its interplay with technology, and the role of rent in explaining both economic growth and income distribution are investigated by adopting a multi-sectoral and non-proportional model, where scarce resources impose several scale constraints that may slow growth, but may contribute to further development of new technologies. In this dynamic framework the category of rent acquires new dimensions with far-reaching implications for both the system of prices and the distribution of income. The analytical and formal-theoretical perspective of this book could be used as a basis for future historical and quantitative studies.
