We study a demand-driven growth and distribution model with a public sector, both without and with government debt. Government spending is used to finance the accumulation of public capital and to pay wages to public employees. The interaction between public capital and induced technical change...

This comprehensive book on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth presents Classical and Keynesian in parallel with Neoclassical approaches, and the new variant, neoliberal capitalism. It covers growth theory, tools of intertemporal economic analysis, money and growth,...

This paper embeds a technical progress function in a classical growth model and studies the effects of permanent changes in parameters and temporary shocks such as pandemics. Technical change is driven by dynamic economies of scale and responds to distributional forces: the wage share regulates...