Technology, structural change and BOP-constrained growth: a structuralist toolbox
构建了一个模型，捕捉拉丁美洲结构主义的核心思想，分析技术不对称和结构异质性，并连接后凯恩斯宏观经济学与演化微观经济学，用于研究结构变化、技术追赶与长期增长的互动。
Latin American structuralism (LAS) is a significant part of the heterodox tradition in the theory of long-term growth, with a focus on the problems of developing economies that started their industrialisation process when other regions had already accumulated substantial technological capabilities. The emergence of a centre–periphery system posed specific problems to growth and distribution in laggard economies, which LAS discusses in a systematic way. In this paper we present a model that, first, captures key insights of the LAS school, such as the persistency of technological asymmetries and structural heterogeneity; second, it can be used to analyse the impacts of shocks and policies based on how they affect the supply-side and demand-side parameters of the model; third, it links more closely (post-)Keynesian macroeconomics based on the BOP constraint with the evolutionary microeconomics concerned with the dynamics of learning; last, it can be used as a toolbox and a teachable model in the analysis of interactions between structural change, technological catching up and long-term growth.