Directed Technical Change in Labor and Environmental Economics
Posted: 12 Aug 2021
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Directed Technical Change in Labor and Environmental Economics
Directed Technical Change in Labor and Environmental Economics
Directed Technical Change in Labor and Environmental Economics
Date Written: August 2021
Abstract
It is increasingly evident that the direction of technological change responds to economic incentives. We review the literature on directed technical change in the context of environmental economics and labor economics, and we show that these fields have much in common both theoretically and empirically. We emphasize the importance of a balanced growth path and show that the lack of such a path is closely related to the slow development of green technologies in environmental economics and to growing inequality in labor economics. We discuss whether the direction of innovation is efficient.
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