'Yeni Büyüme Kuramı'nın Politika Çıkarsamaları Üzerine: Yeniliğin Birikimli Özelliği

Geçen yüzyılın özellikle son yarısında yaşanan teknolojik ilerleme, bir çok disiplinin, iktisadi büyüme üzerine geliştirilen temel varsayımları gözden geçirmelerini gerektirmıştir. Bu bağlamda, üç genel bakış açısı belirginleşmektedir: neo-klasik iktısat, kurumsal - evrimsel iktisat ve bölgesel çalışmalar ile mekansal-iktisat. Neo-klasık iktisat içinde yenilikçı bır grup (Romerciler) temel bazı varsayımları sorgulayarak, onu daha gerçekçi bir temsil ve müdahale biçimine dönüştürmeye çalışmaktadır. Bu makalenin amacı Paul Michael Romer tarafından başlatılan ve zamanla büyük bir ilgiye maruz kalan 'Yeni Büyüme Kuramı' (YBK) etrafındaki tanışmalara ışık tutarak, yeniliğin birikerek ilerleme özelliğinden kaynaklanan ve YBK'na içkin olan politika çıkarsamalarını eleştirel bir bağlamda irdelemektir. Bu kapsamda. makalede öncelıkle YBK'nın temel özellikleri onaya kanarak, diğer bakış açılan çerçevesinde genel bir değerlendirmesi yapılmakta, daha sonrada YBK'nın politika çıkarsamaları eleştirel bir bağlamda gözden geçırilmektedir. Son kısımda ise yapılan çalışmanın genel bır özeti temel han sonuçlara bağlanmaktadır.

On the Policy Implications of the 'New Growth Theory': Cumulative Nature on Innovation

The technological development especially experienced in the second half of the last century has paved the way for most of the disciplınes to questıon the basic hypotheses related to ıhe eeonomic growth. Within this cnntext, one can identıfy the tracks of three general perspectives: neo-classical economics. institutıonal - evolutionary economics and territorial studies together with spatial eeonomics. A group of economist wlth neo-C1assical heritages (Romerians) questions the basic assumptions of the neo-C1assicism ın order to ımprove the representation and imervention capacity of the respective perspective. The aim of thıs study ıs to shed some Iight on the discussions revolving around the New Growth Theory (NGT) that has been pioneered by Paul Michael Romer and subject LO a great deal of altention for the recent years in order to elaborate the policy implications inherent to the NGT and stemming from the cumulative nature of innovatian within a crıtical framework. In this regard, this study. firstiy, explores the basic characteristics of the NGT in order to elaborate it from the poim of view of other perspectives, and then it attempts ıo evaluate the policy implications of the NGT by employing a critical frameıvork. In the last pan of this paper, a general summary of the study is connected to some conduding remarks.

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