Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Randall G. Holcombe
Online Publish Date:
Volume 1, No. 2 (Summer 1998) What causes economic growth? At the risk of some oversimplification, the answers economists have given to this question can be divided into two broad camps, one following the ideas of Adam Smith (1776) and the other following the ideas of David Ricardo (1821). Smith, whose overriding goal was to understand the