Some belief apart from the idea of that to be selfish is irredeemably evil; you can't believe that and have economic progress. (1075-84) There has to be some degree of economic freedom, men must be able to act to some extent within some significant range. The underlying assumption for everything that I am going to write that follows is a free or at least semi-free country. If you want to push me when all is said, and done I would say if you get the philosophical preconditions you will get economic growth; not without effort but probably without any additional abstract knowledge.
Increasing Economic Growth.
When you get it how do you get? So lets begin with a definition economic growth I'm defining economic growth as an "increase in the total productive capacity of an economy-. (Buechner Recording) Now what is productive capacity? Well it's the "capacity to produce output, goods, and services-. (Buechner Recording) What does productive capacity consist of? According to Buechner these are the primary components of an economies productive capacity? .
Here are the components:.
1. Knowledge and skills.
2. Machinery and tools.
3. Plants and structures.
4. Raw materials.
5. Parts, materials, ingredients, intermediate goods (Recording).
Productive capacity consists of the knowledge and skills of the population; this of course is the fundamental productive capacity, or in more objective terms "man's mind- is the fundamental productive capacity."" (Rand 1075-84) Everything else in this paper depends on knowledge, and knowledge depends on thought. Those are the fundamentals of all productive capacity. Numbers 2-5 fall under the general heading of capital goods or producer goods. Machinery and tools economists usually put this under a triumberant of machinery tools and equipment. Plants and structures of the economy are a big category, and includes factories, office buildings, damns, highways, bridges, power lines, telephone lines, pipe lines, railroad tracks, airports etcetera.
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