We examine how inequality and openness interact in shaping the long-run growth prospects of developing countries. To …. We show that inequality affects growth very differently in an open economy as opposed to a closed economy: If the economy … is close to the technological frontier, the positive demand effect of inequality on growth found in closed-economy models …

techies in 2002 saw greater polarization, and grew faster, from 2002 to 2007. Offshoring reduced employment growth. Among blue …

Recent econometric analyses of growth in industrialized countries reveal that energy?s elasticity of production …

economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from …

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

, innovation. Using a Schumpeterian growth model in which firms' dynamic R&D and financing choices are endogenously determined, we … demonstrate that this second effect always dominates, so that debt fosters innovation and growth at the aggregate level. Our paper …

standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset … of the fertility transition, technological progress increased inequality directly through land-biased technological … change and indirectly through increasing population growth. Thefertility transition and the child quantity-quality trade …

The paper proposes a two-country general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and trade between two regions, North …