...Matthieu Ballandonne Kenneth J. Arrow's 1962 article “The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing” is considered a seminal contribution to endogenous growth theory. However, no history of its origins has been written yet. We aim to fill this gap by studying the genesis of Arrow's article...

... of technological change, and continuous “learning by doing.” In the last two decades, CEPAL’s interest has focused on issues of inequality in the global region that is still the most unequal in the world. Correspondence may be addressed to Joseph L. Love, 922 West Armory Ave., Champaign, IL 61821; e-mail: j...

.... 1978 . The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth . Melbourne : Longman Cheshire . Arrow K. 1962a . “ The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing .” Review of Economic Studies 29 : 155 – 73 . ———. 1962b . “ Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention...

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... (2015) has shown, this work formed the basis of Arrow s (1962) later foun- dational work on learning by doing. It also indirectly formed the basis of Arrow s considerations on information and market structure. As RAND began to grapple with the shortcomings of its Strategic Bombing Systems Analysis...

... expectations and how they influence investment decisions. There is another, ‘Learning by Using,’ a variant of Arrow’s learning by doing, that demonstrates the elimination of errors and the fundamental improvements that occur only from using a technology. There is yet another on the international...

... Struggle with Medium-Run Macroeconomics, 1956–95  395 Matthieu Ballandonne Creating Increasing Returns: The Genesis of Arrow’s “Learning by Doing” Article  449 Vincent Barnett Keynes and the Psychology...

...., J. McCombie, and R. Vickerman, eds. 2006 . Growth and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of A. P. Thirlwall . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Arrow, K. J. 1962 . The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing. Review of Economic Studies 29.3 : 155 –73. Arrow, K. J., S. Karlin, and P...

... . 1962b . “ The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing .” Review of Economic Studies 29 ( 3 ): 155 – 73 . Arthur Brian . 2009 . The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves . New York : Free Press . Asher Harold . 1956 . “ Cost-Quantity Relationships...

...) that he did not learn much economics at Oxford, but rather mathematics, philosophy, and contemporary history. His training in economics began with his teaching at L.S.E. under the eye of Robbins. This ‘learning by doing’ experience may help to explain his continued willingness to rethink ques...

...Esther-Mirjam Sent Correspondence may be addressed to Esther-Mirjam Sent, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; e-mail: sent.2@nd.edu . Duke University Press 2002 Arrow, Kenneth J. 1962 . The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing. Review...

..., Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretriev- ably” (Wulden, 35). This suggests that Thoreau had a naive view of economics, but the statement springs more directly from his view of education-that it is better to learn by doing than by reading. This from a Harvard graduate who seems...

... topics in 14.123. In particular, Arrow’s learning-by-doing paper was examined in detail, and, of course, Phelps gave us a compre- hensive treatment of the Golden Rule. But he only dared do so on Friday, December 14 when Bob was absent. And only then did I learn that in his 1961–1962 German Ph.D...

... economies in the production of knowledge or learning-by- doing. Other models (Arthur 1994) isolate possible effects of positive feedbacks in a dynamic setting, stressing the importance of start-up positions for exploiting scale advantages and essentially abandoning the uniqueness, and the necessary...

... sections or chapters on empirical inquiries on subjects such as the history of steelmaking or the technology of commercial avia- tion. There is a chapter on technological expectations and how they influence investment decisions. There is another, ‘Learning by Using,’ a variant of Arrow’s learning...

... provided the adequate generalization of these techniques: it was Karlin who sug- gested that Uzawa check Lev S. Pontryagin s Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes, just translated into English in 1962. Growth econo- mists tapped engineering knowledge in other ways. In his learning-by - doing paper...

... economics as if one all-encompassing theory had been discovered. She saw her responsibility as one of developing life- time thinkers who would learn economics by actually doing economics in different circumstances. A neoclassical economist might object that indeed there are consid- erable...