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have noticed that there is a series of coefficients which have
not been mentioned: the Ann’ S, namely the demand coefficients
for new investments. The reason is that these coefficients can-
not be specified in advance. They are themselves unknowns,
in the present model, as they must be determined in such a
way as to be consistent with the growing productive potential
of the system.
Our task is, first of all, to find out the conditions under
which equilibrium may be maintained over time; and then to
nvestigate the time-paths of the variables of the system.
2. The conditions for a dynamic equilibrium
We might begin by saying that, in order to maintain equi-
librium over time, conditions (II.20) and (II.21), which are
satisfied by hypothesis at time zero, must also and constantly
be kept satisfied as time goes on. A statement of this kind,
however, now becomes uninteresting and artificial, because
those two conditions cease to be independent of one another,
when time is allowed to elapse.
If population is growing, both the supply of labour services
and the demand for each product increase, as time goes on.
[n order that the new labour force may find employment and
che growing potential demand may become effective, productive
capacity must also increase. Thus, the equilibrium conditions
for productive capacitv in time become
111.2)
which simply means that there must be an increase in the pro-
ductive capacity of each commodity, parallel to the increase
in its demand.
The formulation may be expressed in a more helpful way
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