Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Abstract
We introduce automation into a standard model of capital accumulation and
show that (i) there is the possibility of perpetual growth, even in the absence
of technological progress; (ii) the long-run economic growth rate declines with
population growth, which is consistent with the available empirical evidence; (iii)there is a unique share of savings diverted to automation that maximizes long-run growth; (iv) the labor share declines with automation to an extent that fits to the observed pattern over the last decades
