Marginalrevolution iconMarginalrevolutionOct 20, 2026

Saving for the machines

From Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: When machines can perform a growing share of tasks, growth depends on two margins: how the task structure affects the returns to accumulating machines, and how strongly capital accumulation responds to those returns. I argue that, in a standard task model, capital supply governs the siz

Saving for the machines

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