TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Charles I. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Growth and Ideas T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - September 2004; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Ideas are different from nearly all other economic goods in that they are nonrivalrous. This nonrivalry implies that production possibilities are likely to be characterized by increasing returns to scale, an insight that has profound implications for economic growth. The purpose of this chapter is to explore these implications UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w10767 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10767 ER -