The Causes of Economic Growth Interdisciplinary Perspectives /

• Main Author: Szostak, Rick. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics.; Endogenous growth (Economics).; Social sciences > Methodology.; Sociology.; Economics/Management Science.; Economic Growth.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92282-7

What are the causes of economic growth? As billions of people still live in poverty, this is perhaps the most important question in human science. It is also a very complex one, as rates of economic growth are influenced by a multitude of economic as well as political, geographical and sociological...

Table of Contents:

• Interdisciplinarity and Economic Growth
• The Key Phenomena that Potentially Cause Growth
• The Most Relevant Theories and Methods
• Relevant Disciplines and Disciplinary Perspectives
• An Interdisciplinary Literature Survey
• The Causes of Economic Growth: Investment, Trade, Technology, Geography
• The Causes of Economic Growth: Institutions
• The Causes of Economic Growth: Cultural and Social Determinants
• Causal Arguments Under-Studied in the Literature
• Emergent Properties of the System of Causal Links
• Integrating Diverse Views of the Role of the Government
• Reflections on the Results of Integration
• Possible Tests of the Results of Integration
• Concluding Remarks.