Notes and comments. Cumulative causation, interrelatedness and the theory of economic growth: a reply to Argyrous and Toner
回应了两位批评者，澄清了原模型对专业化促进增长的强调，反驳了初始条件决定论和锁定导致机械决定论的批评，并辩护了用数学模型分析开放社会过程的合理性。
In responding to the comments of George Argyrous and Phillip Toner, this reply focuses on four areas of contention between myself and my critics. First, it is suggested that my original model places more weight on the growth-enhancing characteristics of increasing specialisation in production than either Argyrous or Toner acknowledge. Secondly, it is demonstrated that both 'formal' and 'verbal' models of cumulative growth typically place unwarranted emphasis on the importance of initial conditions. Thirdly, the evolutionary properties of my original model are defended against the claim that lock-in renders it mechanical and deterministic. Finally, it is argued that mathematically modelling open but structured social processes (such as economic growth) should not be rejected as redundant in principle.