This paper develops a dynamic, general equilibrium model of specialization-driven growth in which private coordination costs are decreasing in public expenditure on physical and institutional infrastructure. The model provides an explicitly economic explanation of the secular rise of government. In
Evidentialism, warrant, and the division of epistemic labor
β Scribed by Colin P. Ruloff
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 833 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-3893
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