Learning, innovation, increasing returns and resource creation: Luigi Pasinetti’s ‘original sin’ of, and call for a post-classical, economics
基于帕西内蒂的贡献,回应其逆转古典经济学家“非递增收益”原罪的呼吁,勾勒后古典经济学框架,整合学习、技术进步、资源创造等主题,倡导复兴剑桥学派思想以构建更包容的经济学。
© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. We draw on the seminal contribution to economics by Luigi Pasinetti, respond to his call to reverse what he saw as the 'original sin' of classical economists exacerbated by neoclassical economists, namely the assumption of non-increasing returns to scale, and move towards building a post-classical economics. We outline the contours of a post-classical framework that draws on key themes and contributions from Pasinetti on learning, technical progress, increasing returns, resource creation, trade and catching up, and contributions from within and without economics that are in line with, lend support to and challenge it. We advocate the pressing need and opportune timing for a concerted effort to revitalise ideas from the once vibrant 'Cambridge School' of economics and help develop a fresh, more pluralist and inclusive post-classical economics that cuts across divides and opens up opportunities for a less 'dismal science'.