Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. Introduction: 1. Economic growth and economic development, the questions
  • 2. The Solow growth model
  • 3. The Solow model and the data
  • 4. Fundamental determinants of differences in economic performance
  • Pt.2. Toward neoclassical growth: 5. Foundations of neoclassical growth
  • 6. Infinite-horizon optimization and dynamic programming
  • 7. An introduction to the theory of optimal control
  • Pt.3. Neoclassical growth: 8. The neoclassical growth model
  • 9. Growth with overlapping generations
  • 10. Human capital and economic growth
  • 11. First-generation models of endogenous growth
  • Pt.4. Endogenous technological change: 12. Modeling technological change
  • 13. Expanding variety models
  • 14. Models of Schumpeterian growth
  • 15. Directed technological change
  • Pt.5. Stochastic model: 16. Stochastic dynamic programming
  • 17. Stochastic growth models
  • Pt.6. 18. Technology diffusion, trade and interdependences
  • 19. Trade and growth
  • Pt.7. Economic development and economic growth
  • 20. Structural change and economic growth
  • 21. Structural trasnformations and market failures in development
  • Pt. 8. The political economy of growth: 22. Institutions, political economy and growth
  • 23. Political institutions and economic growth
  • Pt.9. Mathematical appendixes.