17:Long-Term Economic Growth What are the long-term growth trends in the United States and other countries? What are the main factors that influence.

17:Long-TermEconomic Growth

What are the long-term growth trends in the United States and other countries?

What are the main factors that influence long-term growth?

What policies might be used to speed up economic growth?

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Economic Miracles

U.S. real GDP per person almost doubled between 1960 and 1995.

However, this growth has been uneven with periods of recession and expansion.

Incomes in Asian economics have grown eightfold between 1960 and 1995.

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Long-Term Growth Trends

Long-term growth is the trend growth rate of potential GDP.

Potential GDP grows for two reasons: Population growth Growth in potential GDP per person

Only the second brings rising living standards.

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Growth in the U.S. Economy

U.S. economic growth averaged 1.7 percent per year between 1895 and 1995.

During the 1960s growth was 2.5 percent per year.

Since 1973 growth has slowed to 1.4 percent per year due to the slowing of productivity growth.

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A Hundred Years of Economic Growth in the United States

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Two Extraordinary Events

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw a fall in real GDP unlike anything else in the past 100 years.

The boom created by World War II was a major expansion of real GDP.

However, between 1929 and 1953, growth averaged 1.8 percent a year.

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Real GDP Growth inthe World Economy

Among the richest countries, the United States and Canada have had the highest real GDP per person since 1960.

However, Japan has been growing the fastest - until recently.

Africa and Central and South America grew at a slower rate.

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Catch-Up in Asia

Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan are catching up with the United States.

China has a high growth rate, but started very far behind the United States and still has a long way to go.

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The Sources ofEconomic Growth

Societies that do not experience economic growth lack some fundamental social institutions and arrangements that are essential preconditions for economic growth: Markets Property rights Monetary exchange

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Markets Markets enable buyers and sellers to

get information and to do business with each other.

Market prices send signals to buyers and sellers that create incentives to increase or decrease the quantities demanded and supplied.

Markets encourage specialization and trade.

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Property Rights

Property rights are the social arrangements that govern the ownership, use, and disposal of factors of production such as: physical property (land, buildings) financial property (claims by one person

against another) intellectual property (inventions)

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Monetary Exchange Monetary exchange facilitates

transactions of all kinds, including the orderly transfer of private property from one person to another.

Property rights and monetary exchange create incentives for people to specialize and trade, to save and invest, and to invent new technologies.

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Specialization and Growth

Specialization leads to growth, improving the standard of living.

For growth to continue, people must have incentives to pursue three activities: Saving and investment in new capital Investment in human capital Discovery of new technologies

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Saving and Investmentin New Capital

Saving and investment in new capital increase the amount of capital per worker and increase human productivity.

Production methods that use large amounts of capital per worker (such as assembly lines) are much more productive than using hand tools.

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Investment inHuman Capital

Human capital is the accumulated skill and knowledge of human beings.

Investment in human capital is a source of both increased productivity and technological advance.

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Discovery of New Technologies

Technological change makes an enormous contribution to our increased productivity.

It arises from research and development as well as trial and error.

Most technologies must be embodied in physical capital.

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Growth Accounting

Labor Productivity Labor productivity is real GDP per hour

of work.• Equals real GDP divided by aggregate labor hours

Determines how much income an hour of labor generates

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Growth Accounting

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Growth Accounting

Growth accounting divides growth into two components.

1) Growth in capital per hour of labor

2) Technological change• Includes everything that contributes to labor

productivity growth that is not included in growth in capital per hour

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Growth Accounting

The Productivity Function A relationship that shows how real GDP

per hour of labor changes as the amount of capital per hour of labor changes with a given state of technology.

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Growth Accounting

The Productivity Function The shape of the productivity function

reflects the law of diminishing returns. The law of diminishing returns states

that as the quantity of one input increases with the quantities of all other inputs remaining the same, output increases but by ever smaller increments.

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Growth Accounting

The Productivity Function Applying the law of diminishing returns to

capital, the law states that if a given number of hours of labor use more capital, the additional output that results from the additional capital gets smaller as the amount of capital increases.

The one third rule explains how much less.

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Growth Accounting

The One Third Rule Robert Solow of MIT discovered that on

average, with no change in technology, a 1 percent increase in capital per hour of labor brings a one third of a 1 percent increase in real GDP per hour of labor.

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Growth Accounting

Accounting for the Productivity Growth Slowdown and Speedup We can use the one third rule to study

U.S. productivity growth and the productivity growth slowdown.

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Growth Accounting

Accounting for the Productivity Growth Slowdown and Speedup 1960 to 1973

• The economy grew due to rapid technological changes.

• Real GDP per hour expanded by 39%

• Capital per hour increased by 24%

• With no change in technology, the economy would have expanded by only 8% (1/3 of 24%)

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Growth Accounting

Accounting for the Productivity Growth Slowdown and Speedup 1973 to 1983

• Predominantly, the reason for the productivity growth slowdown can be attributed to a decline in the rate of technological change.

• Real GDP per hour expanded by 8%

• Capital per hour increased by 15%

• With no change in technology, the economy would have expanded by 5% (1/3 of 15%)

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Growth Accounting

Accounting for the Productivity Growth Slowdown and Speedup 1983 to 1995

• The economy grew due to more rapid technological change.

• Real GDP per hour expanded by 18.5%

• Capital per hour increased by 11%

• With no change in technology, the economy would have expanded by only 3.7% (1/3 of 11%)

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Growth Accounting and the Productivity Growth Slowdown

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Growth Accounting

Technological Change During the Productivity Growth Slowdown Technology was directed toward coping

with two major problems.

1) Energy price shocks

2) The environment

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Growth Accounting

Technological Change During the Productivity Growth Slowdown Energy Price Shocks

• 1973–1974 and 1979—1980

• Fuel inefficient methods of transportation and production were scrapped at an increased rate

• Technological change focused on saving energy rather than enhancing productivity

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Growth Accounting

Technological Change During the Productivity Growth Slowdown The Environment

• The 1970s saw an expansion of laws and resources devoted to protecting the environment and improving the quality of the workplace.

• These benefits are not included in real GDP.

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