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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19135| Title: | Something out of nothing? : Neoclassical growth and the "Trivial" steady State |
| Keywords: | O11 N6 O41 O14 ddc:330 capital accumulation neoclassical growth model Wachstumstheorie Neoklassik Investition Steady-State-Wachstum Theorie |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Description: | A common perception about the neoclassical growth model is that an economy devoid of capital cannot evolve to strictly positive levels of output if capital is essential. We challenge this view by positing a broad class of production functions, encompassing the neoclassical production function, that?surprisingly?show that a take-off is possible even though the initial capital stock is zero and capital is essential. Since the marginal product of capital is initially infinite, the ?trivial? steady state becomes so unstable that the solution to the equation of motion involves the possibility of a take-off. When it happens, the take-off is spontaneous: there is no causality, not even randomness. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19135 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19135 ppn:510023029 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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