OPTIMAL ECONOMIC GROWTH AND WEALTH EFFECTS.

Abstract

The presence of wealth effects is shown to be a possible cause of the appearance of 'Saddle points' or multiple stationary solutions for the optimal path of economic growth. The importance of this fact is that it tends to narrow down the range of economic growth prescribed by the optimal path. This is so since starting from a fixed initial condition, and then having a multiplicity of stationary solutions may lead to the appearance of a relatively 'close' point towards which the optimal path converges.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 1965
Accession Number
AD0622871

Entities

People

  • Mordecai Kurz

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Stationary

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design