Friede Gard Lecture 04 The Fantasy Production Function
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The "Cobb-Douglas Production Function" dominates Neoclassical macroeconomic models today. Decades ago, Anwar Shaikh showed that it's "excellent fit to national data" occurred because it is simply a transformation of wage and profit data under conditions of a slowly changing distribution of income, while Mankiw showed that to fit international data, the coefficient for capital had to be increased from 0.3 to at least 0.8.
Friede Gard Lecture 04 The Fantasy Production Function
Friede Gard Lecture 04 The Fantasy Production…
Friede Gard Lecture 04 The Fantasy Production Function
The "Cobb-Douglas Production Function" dominates Neoclassical macroeconomic models today. Decades ago, Anwar Shaikh showed that it's "excellent fit to national data" occurred because it is simply a transformation of wage and profit data under conditions of a slowly changing distribution of income, while Mankiw showed that to fit international data, the coefficient for capital had to be increased from 0.3 to at least 0.8.