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The Insecure Future of the World Economic Growth
Journal of Economic and Social Thought
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The Insecure Future of the World Economic Growth
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NIELSEN, Ron W.; Environmental Futures Research Institute, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Qld,
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Abstract. Growth rate of the world Growth Domestic Product (GDP) is analysed to determine possible pathways of the future economic growth. The analysis is based on using the latest data of the World Bank and it reveals that the growth rate between 1960 and 2014 was following a trajectory approaching asymptotically a constant value. The most likely prediction is that the world economic growth will continue to increase exponentially and that it will become unsustainable possibly even during the current century. A more optimistic but less realistic prediction is based on the assumption that the growth rate will start to decrease linearly. In this case, the world economic growth is predicted to reach a maximum, if the growth rate is going to decrease linearly with time, or to follow a logistic trajectory, if the growth rate is going to decrease linearly with the size of the world GDP.Keywords. Economic growth; world economic growth; Gross Domestic Product; predicting future growth; exponential growth.JEL. C01, C20, C50, C53, C60, C65, C80.
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Journal of Economic and Social Thought
Journal of Economic and Social Thought |
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2015-12-18
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/526
10.1453/jest.v2i4.526 |
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Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 2, No 4 (2015): December; 242-255
Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 2, No 4 (2015): December; 242-255 2149-0422 |
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eng
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/526/627
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Copyright (c) 2015 Journal of Economic and Social Thought
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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