Dinamica economica strutturale - Un'indagine teorica sulle conseguenze economiche dell'apprendimento umano

[Autom. eng. transl.] This Book is a theoretical investigation on the evolution over time, following human learning, of a "pure work" economy. The presented theory is simple, but it is proposed to grasp the basic characteristics of industrial economies. Economists have long been aware of two key phenomena that are at the root of long-term economic movements: the accumulation of capital and technical progress. But a sort of privileged position has always been reserved for the accumulation of capital. In the present work this attitude is reversed and the central role is assigned to technical progress. With a multi-sectorial analysis, a structural dynamic (at differentiated rates of variation of prices, production and employment) is highlighted against the background of "natural" classical relations. A whole series of institutional problems emerges. The individual and social learning process, the dissemination of information and know-how are the key factors that explain the characteristics and developments of industrial societies, together with the source of their problems and their wealth. ---------- English Version: Structural Economic Dynamics - A theory of economic consequences of human learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Japanese translation: Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyôron-sha, 1998.