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The Uzawa–Lucas model is an economic model that explains long-term economic growth as consequence of human capital accumulation. Developed by Robert Lucas, Jr., [1] building upon initial contributions by Hirofumi Uzawa, [2] it extends the AK model by a two-sector setup, in which physical and human capital are produced by different technologies.
An endogenous growth theory implication is that policies that embrace openness, competition, change and innovation will promote growth. [ citation needed ] Conversely, policies that have the effect of restricting or slowing change by protecting or favouring particular existing industries or firms are likely, over time, to slow growth to the ...
Lucas and Paul Romer heralded the birth of endogenous growth theory and the resurgence of research on economic growth in the late 1980s and the 1990s. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Lucas also contributed foundational contributions to behavioral economics, and provided the intellectual foundation for the understanding of deviations from the law of one price ...
Lucas summarized his critique: [4] Given that the structure of an econometric model consists of optimal decision rules of economic agents, and that optimal decision rules vary systematically with changes in the structure of series relevant to the decision maker, it follows that any change in policy will systematically alter the structure of ...
Robert Lucas, Jr. adopted the concept to explain increasing returns to embodied human capital. [6] Xiaokai Yang and Jeff Borland have shown learning-by-doing plays a role in the evolution of countries to greater specialisation in production. [7] In both these cases, learning-by-doing and increasing returns provide an engine for long run growth.
In macroeconomics, the cost of business cycles is the decrease in social welfare, if any, caused by business cycle fluctuations.. Nobel economist Robert Lucas proposed measuring the cost of business cycles as the percentage increase in consumption that would be necessary to make a representative consumer indifferent between a smooth, non-fluctuating, consumption trend and one that is subject ...
In the premiere episode of 'Grey's Anatomy' season 19, we learn resident Lucas Adams is Derek Shepherd's nephew. Reddit may now have a theory on who his mom could be on the ABC drama.
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (/ ˈ s oʊ l oʊ /; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him.