Random walk to innovation: Why productivity follows a power law

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 713-737

  Ghiglino, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Ideas; Innovations; Patent citations; Random growing networks; Scale free distributions; Technological progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858005342     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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