We characterize the interactions between technological change, natural resource scarcity and population dynamics in a Schumpeterian model with endogenous fertility choices. We show that there exists a pseudo-Malthusian equilibrium in which population is constant and income grows at a constant...

In a set of influential papers, Charles Jones (1995a, 1995b, 1999) argued that R&D based endogenous growth models are inconsistent with the data. He showed, in a very striking manner, that the scale effects prediction of early endogenous growth models (e.g. Romer, 1986 and 1990, Grossman and...