Economic growth : theory, empirics and policy

Benigno Valdés (Professor of Economics, Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE, Spain)

Economic Growth is an advanced undergraduate text written specifically for one semester courses in growth theory and for first year graduate students to refresh their knowledge. It will also be of great use for scholars and professional economists as the text contains many references to practical policy issues. The author condenses the fundamental issues of growth theory and covers the new ideas in a highly entertaining text, written in a clear and accessible style

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Valdés, Benigno
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Wachstumstheorie \| Growth theory \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Endogenes Wachstumsmodell \| Endogenous growth model \| Welt \| World

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 197 pages) illustrations
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	"ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain" Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. The "stylized facts" of economic growth -- Part II: The theory of economic growth with "exogenous" technical progress -- 2. the neoclassical model of economic growth -- 3. the hypothesis of convergence (i): Economies with the same steady state -- 4. the hypothesis of convergence (ii): Economies with different steady states -- 5. economic growth and social welfare: The "golden rules" of accumulation -- 6. Growth accounting and the solow residual -- Part III: The theory of economic growth with "endogenous" technical progress -- 7. learning-by-doing, knowledge spillovers and economic growth -- 8. schumpeterian models of economic growth -- Part IV: Concluding remarks -- 9. Theories of economic growth: "old" and "new" -- Mathematical appendices -- References -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-78254-132-5 ; 978-1-84064-003-8 ; 978-1-84064-466-1
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781782541325 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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