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  3. A Reconsideration of the Theory of Non-Linear Scale Effects
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781108555029
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555029
Subjects:
Economics: General Interest, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
Series:
Elements in Evolutionary Economics
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Book description

The main thrust of this Element is a critical assessment of the theory and evidence concerning the sources of scale effects. It is argued that the analysis of static scale effects is important because scale effects are embedding in our world, and new technologies associated with an evolving economy often allow their exploitation when they cannot be exploited in less technically advanced and smaller economies. So, although static equilibrium theory is not a good vehicle for studying economic growth, showing how scale effects operate when output varies with given technology helps us to understand the scale effects that occur when output rises as a result of economic growth, even though that is typically driven by technological change.

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1 I have grouped introductory texts under A rather than B with the rest of the textbooks because their converge is less formal than the micro texts, and hence more like those in the other categories under A.

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