As leis de rendimento nas teorias neoclássicas do crescimento: uma crítica sraffiana

Abstract

The paper examines critically the exogenous and endogenous neoclassical growth theories, with particular attention given to the question of assumptions on marginal returns to factors and returns to scale. It shows that a number of deficiencies In the treatment of topics such as the connection between accumulation and growth and increasing returns to scale, together with many of their most implausible results and artificial assumptions, are In fact the high price imposed by the insistence on basing the theory of growth In the traditional and flawed marginalist explanation of distribution.