The Steady-State Growth Theorem: A Comment on Uzawa (1961)
Working Paper 10921
DOI 10.3386/w10921
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This brief note revisits the proof of the Steady-State Growth Theorem, first provided by Uzawa (1961). We provide a clear statement of the theorem and a new version of Uzawa's proof that makes the intuition underlying the result more apparent.
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Copy CitationCharles I. Jones and Dean Scrimgeour, "The Steady-State Growth Theorem: A Comment on Uzawa (1961)," NBER Working Paper 10921 (2004), https://doi.org/10.3386/w10921.Download Citation
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Charles I. Jones & Dean Scrimgeour, 2008. "A New Proof of Uzawa's Steady-State Growth Theorem," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 90(1), pages 180-182, November.
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