Production and efficiency with global technologies

Structures and transformations: Heuristics of economic change

“…Conditions for the analytical complementarity of horizontal and vertical representations of structure are discussed in Leontief, 1991Leontief, [1928, Sraffa, 1960, Pasinetti, 1973, Quadrio Curzio, 1986, 1996. Characterizing features of those contributions are the utilization of aggregation and disaggregation procedures allowing the transformation of a horizontal structure into a vertical structure, and vice versa.…”

Explaining structural change: actions and transformations

“…(Ricardo, 1951(Ricardo, [1817 This approach highlights the dynamics of economic structure in the light of proportionality conditions and land availability constraints requiring the economy to introduce discrete changes of production technique as the scale of production is continuously increased. the rate of profit is inversely related to the unit wage, there will be a degree of freedom that would make the economy follow one or another dynamic trajectory depending on the income distribution between wages and profits (Quadrio Curzio, 1967Curzio, , 1996. For what concerns actions, Ricardo's dynamic trajectory assumes that capitalists cultivate additional land following the order of fertility, rather than another criterion.…”

Industrial policy in context: Building blocks for an integrated and comparative political economy agenda

“…Horizontal linkages highlight structural dynamics whose salient features are the transformations in the characteristics of the processes delivering intermediate inputs to one another and/or the transformations in the type of interdependence between those processes within a certain 'production space' (Andreoni, 2018). The switch from one matrix of interdependencies to another in a production system that is subject to limited availability of non-produced resources (e.g., land) is a case in point and has been addressed as such at least since Malthus' and Ricardo's analysis of decreasing returns (Quadrio Curzio, 1996;Andreoni, 2015). For another example, increasing returns can result from structural processes of reconfiguration of these interdependencies, provided that certain scale and proportionality conditions within and across firms are satisfied (Scazzieri, 2014).…”