Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge Export

@unpublished{citeulike:2747706, abstract = {In this essay I propose to explore what we can and cannot learn about the way economies evolve over time. The focus of the essay is on the dynamics of change--political, social, and of course economic; and therefore the key word is time. In section I I outline the process of economic change as I understand it; in section II I specify the questions we must answer in order to understand that process; in the final section I tentatively identify which of those questions I believe are amenable to being answered with sufficient research and which I believe to be beyond our ability to answer. I need hardly add that my conclusions are highly speculative.}, author = {North, Douglass C.}, citeulike-article-id = {2747706}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpeh/9612004.html}, keywords = {bounded, economics, knowledge, pathdependence, uncertainty}, posted-at = {2008-05-03 09:02:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge}, url = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpeh/9612004.html}, year = {1996} }

TY - UNPB ID - citeulike:2747706 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2747706 N2 - In this essay I propose to explore what we can and cannot learn about the way economies evolve over time. The focus of the essay is on the dynamics of change--political, social, and of course economic; and therefore the key word is time. In section I I outline the process of economic change as I understand it; in section II I specify the questions we must answer in order to understand that process; in the final section I tentatively identify which of those questions I believe are amenable to being answered with sufficient research and which I believe to be beyond our ability to answer. I need hardly add that my conclusions are highly speculative. TI - Economic Performance Through Time: The Limits to Knowledge KW - bounded KW - economics KW - knowledge KW - pathdependence KW - uncertainty AU - North, Douglass PY - 1996/// UR - http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpeh/9612004.html ER -