COMMENTS

  1. Growth Maximisation Theory of Marris: Assumptions, Explanation

    Marris establishes the relationship between growth and profits on the demand side through diver­sification into new products. The links between growth and profits are different at different levels of growth. In this growth-profits relationship, growth determines profits.

  2. Value Hypothesis & Growth Hypothesis: lean startup validation

    What are the value hypothesis and the growth hypothesis? The value hypothesis tests whether customers find enough value in a product or service to pay for it. The growth hypothesis examines how customers will discover and adopt the product over time.

  3. The New Growth Theories and Their Empirics after Twenty Years

    In this work the author updates the reviews on endogenous growth theories in order to explore whether recent empirical studies have become more supportive of their main predictions.

  4. (PDF) A Glance at Solow's Growth Theory

    This article examines the growth theory of Robert Solow, which has been a point of reference of economic growth since the 1950s. First, the article analyzes the path-breaking model of growth...

  5. Growth Theories and Convergence Hypothesis

    Going back to the neoclassical framework, the convergence hypothesis asserts that poor economies (ceteris paribus) should grow faster than rich economies and this idea was later on sophisticated within the new (endogenous) growth theory (especially Barro and Sala-i …

  6. Human Capital and Economic Growth

    In short, growth is a self-maintaining process taking place at a constant rate because the returns of the accumulation factors are constant. Endogenous growth theories therefore have the common aim of understanding the long-term growth of per capita income and describing it as the product of the economic system.

  7. An Introduction to Population Growth

    population growth: how the size of the population is changing over time. If population growth is just one of many population characteristics, what makes studying it so important? First,...

  8. A Hypothesis of Population Growth

    A HYPOTHESIS OF POPULATION GROWTH. IN size a population varies directly with amelioration of the conditions of existence and inversely with the prevail- ing level of the standard of living. Here is a hypothesis of population growth expressed in two coordinate clauses.

  9. Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic ...

    The growth rate hypothesis (GRH) posits that variation in organismal stoichiometry (C:P and N:P ratios) is driven by growth-dependent allocation of P to ribosomal RNA. The GRH has found broad but not uniform support …

  10. Evaluating growth theories and their empirical support: An …

    Understanding the factors determining economic growth has been a major concern for economists and governing bodies for many years. The Solow growth model and the endogenous growth models are the main theories tested and used in the growth literature.