Introduction to modern economic growth

Abstract

Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Economic Growth and Economic Development: The Questions -- Chapter 2: The Solow Growth Model -- Chapter 3: The Solow Model and the Data -- Chapter 4: Fundamental Determinants of Differences in Economic Performance -- Part II: Toward Neoclassical Growth -- Chapter 5: Foundations of Neoclassical Growth -- Chapter 6: Infinite-Horizon Optimization and Dynamic Programming -- Chapter 7: An Introduction to the Theory of Optimal Control -- Part III: Neoclassical Growth -- Chapter 8: The Neoclassical Growth Model -- Chapter 9: Growth with Overlapping Generations -- Chapter 10: Human Capital and Economic Growth -- Chapter 11: First-Generation Models of Endogenous Growth -- Part IV: Endogenous Technological Change -- Chapter 12: Modeling Technological Change -- Chapter 13: Expanding Variety Models -- Chapter 14: Models of Schumpeterian Growth -- Chapter 15: Directed Technological Change -- Part V: Stochastic Growth -- Chapter 16: Stochastic Dynamic Programming -- Chapter 17: Stochastic Growth Models -- Part VI: Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Interdependences -- Chapter 18: Diffusion of Technology -- Chapter 19: Trade and Growth -- Part VII: Economic Development and Economic Growth -- Chapter 20: Structural Change and Economic Growth -- Chapter 21: Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development -- Part VIII: The Political Economy of Growth -- Chapter 22: Institutions, Political Economy, and Growth -- Chapter 23: Political Institutions and Economic Growth -- Epilogue: Mechanics and Causes of Economic Growth -- Part IX: Mathematical Appendixes -- Appendix A: Odds and Ends in Real Analysis and Applications to Optimization -- Appendix B: Review of Ordinary Differential Equations -- Appendix C: Brief Review of Dynamic Games -- Appendix D: List of Theorems.