Toward Explaining Productivity and Economic Growth
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The major thesis of this article is that combining the resource-based theory of the firm with Austrian economics and heterogeneous demand theory provides the foundations for a new theory ofcompetition, the resource-ativantage theory. This new theory has macro and public policy implications. Specifically, when compared with neoclassical perfect competition theory. the resource-advantage theory better explains productivity and economic growth.
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