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Growth and Stagnation in a Two-Sector Model: Kaldor's Mattioli Lectures: Review Article

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Nicholas Kaldor's Mattioli Lectures analyze a two-sector model with increasing returns to scale (IRS) in industry and diminishing returns in agriculture (DR). This review article shows that (1) with IRS in industry, a long-run equilibrium growth path with strictly positive growth rates may exist even if agriculture is subject to DR; (2) the industrial sector is the 'engine of growth' if agricultural investment is determined passively by available saving; and (3) if one introduces a separate agricultural investment function, both positive and negative agricultural supply shocks may lead to stagnation, thus vindicating Kaldor's emphasis on commodity price stabilization. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Skott, Peter, 1999. "Growth and Stagnation in a Two-Sector Model: Kaldor's Mattioli Lectures: Review Article," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 23(3), pages 353-370, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:23:y:1999:i:3:p:353-70
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    1. Kaldewei, Cornelia & Weller, Jürgen, 2013. "Empleo, crecimiento sostenible e igualdad," Macroeconomía del Desarrollo 35881, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    2. Rabindra Nath Chakraborty, 2003. "Short‐ and Long‐Run Effects of Environmental Degradation: A Structuralist Approach," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(2‐3), pages 263-300, May.
    3. John E. King, 2010. "Kaldor and the Kaldorians," Chapters, in: Mark Setterfield (ed.), Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth, chapter 7, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. de Souza, Joao Paulo A., 2015. "Evidence of growth complementarity between agriculture and industry in developing countries," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 1-18.
    5. Alejandro Diaz-Bautista, 2004. "Mexico’s Industrial Engine of Growth: Cointegration and Causality," Econometrics 0402010, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. de Souza, Joao Paulo A., 2014. "Growth Complementarity Between Agriculture and Industry: Evidence from a Panel of Developing Countries," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2014-11, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.

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