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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457818403321

Autore

Ruttan Vernon W

Titolo

Can economic growth be sustained? [[electronic resource] ] : the collected papers of Vernon W. Ruttan and Yūjirō Hayami / / edited by Keijiro Otsuka and C. Ford Runge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-026132-3

1-283-26974-0

9786613269744

0-19-987708-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HayamiYūjirō <1932->

OtsukaKeijiro

RungeC. Ford (Carlisle Ford)

Disciplina

338.1

Soggetti

Economic development

Sustainable development

Agriculture - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Productivity growth in agriculture -- pt. 3. Technical change and agricultural development in Asia -- pt. 4. Induced technical and institutional change -- pt. 5. Perspectives -- pt. 6. Postscript.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career in the economics of technical and institutional change. At both a theoretical and empirical level, their analysis of induced innovation provides a solid foundation for understanding how and why technologies and institutions evolve in response to factors that constrain them. Can Economic Growth Be Sustained? provides a sweeping explanation of this process. As scholars, Ruttan and Hayami's abilities and experiences complemented each other. Together, they had great success in working across contexts to integrate Western models