Interdisciplinarity and Economic Growth

Rick Szostak ()
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Rick Szostak: University of Alberta

Chapter 1 in The Causes of Economic Growth, 2009, pp 1-26 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract What are the causes of economic growth? There is perhaps no more important question in all of human science. Billions of people live in abject poverty and their hopes for the future rely on sustained economic growth. Economic growth may be of less critical importance for those who are already comfortable, but here too the achievement of an environmentally sustainable and capability-enhancing future hinges on an understanding of the causes of growth. There is also perhaps no more complex question in human science, for it is clear from contemporary scholarship that a very wide array of phenomena at least potentially influences rates of economic growth. Many of these phenomena are economic in nature, but many are not. Thus the question lends itself to interdisciplinary exploration. We will arguably gain our best understanding of economic growth if we integrate the understandings of economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and others. If this is so, then it follows that we will want to follow ‘best-practice’ strategies for interdisciplinary analysis in exploring economic growth. Fortunately, the scholarship of interdisciplinarity has suggested how interdisciplinary research should best proceed. The contribution of this book is to follow a twelve-step process for interdisciplinary analysis in exploring the causes of growth.

Keywords: Economic Growth; Gross Domestic Product; Interdisciplinary Research; Rich Country; Economic Historian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92282-7_1

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