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Optimum Saving and Growth: Harrod on Dynamic Welfare Economics
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Boianovsky, Mauro |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal In the 1960s and 1970s Harrod shifted the emphasis of his research in economic dynamics from the study of business cycles (instability principle) to the investigation of the growth process. As part of that, he restated his concept of the natural growth rate as an optimum welfare rate. The present paper examines Harrod’s dynamic welfare economics, built around his concept of optimum saving developed as a reaction to Ramsey’s approach to capital accumulation. It is shown that, according to Harrod, the saving rate does not affect the long-run growth rate of per capita income, which is determined by technical progress. Moreover, the economy will grow at the natural (full employment) rate only if economic policy is able to bring saving to its “optimum” level in macroeconomic equilibrium. Harrod’s interest in optimal growth was motivated by his double concern with growth policy in mature economies and economic development in poor countries. |
| Related Links | https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-pdf/70/2/586/24349009/gpx031.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2901570 |
| ISSN | 10914358 |
| e-ISSN | 15565068 |
| DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.2901570 |
| Journal | SSRN Electronic Journal |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2017-01-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Welfare Economics Dynamic Welfare |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health |
