TY - JOUR AU - Jones,Charles I. TI - Growth and Ideas JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 10767 PY - 2004 Y2 - September 2004 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10767 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10767.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Charles I. Jones Graduate School of Business Stanford University 655 Knight Way Stanford, CA 94305-4800 Tel: 510/288-8650 Fax: 650/725-0468 E-Mail: chad.jones@stanford.edu AB - Ideas are different from nearly all other economic goods in that they are nonrivalrous. This nonrivalry implies that production possibilities are likely to be characterized by increasing returns to scale, an insight that has profound implications for economic growth. The purpose of this chapter is to explore these implications. ER -