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Economic Growth
ISBN: 9780321416629 | 0321416627
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2/29/2008
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Why are some countries rich and others poor? David N. Weil, one of the top researchers in economic growth, introduces students to the latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this pivotal question. By showing how empirical data relate to new and old theoretical ideas,Economic Growth , 2/eprovides readers with a complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research.Overview:The Facts to Be Explained; A Framework for Analysis.Factor Accumulation:Physical Capital; Population and Economic Growth; Future Population Trends; H... MORE
| Overview | |
| The Facts to Be Explained Differences in the Level of Income | |
| Among Countries Differences in the Rate of Income | |
| Growth Among Countries | |
| Appendix: Measuring and Comparing GDP | |
| Using Purchasing Power Parity Problems | |
| A Framework for Analysis | |
| The Economics of Sylvania and Freedonia: A Parable From Parable to Practice | |
| What C... MORE | |
| Factor Accumulation | |
| Physical Capital | |
| The Nature of Capital Capital s Role in Production | |
| The Solow Model | |
| The Relationship Between Investment and Saving Appendix: Further Exploration of the Cobb-Douglas | |
| Production Function and the Speed of Convergence in the Solow Model | |
| Population and Economic | |
| Growth Population and Output over the Long Run Population | |
| Growth in the Solow Model | |
| Explaining Population | |
| Growth Explaining the Fertility Transition | |
| Appendix: A More Formal Description of the Total Fertility Rate | |
| Life Expectancy, and Net Rate of Reproduction | |
| Future Population Trends Forecasting Population | |
| The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change | |
| Human Capital Human Capital in the Form of Health Human Capital in the Form of Education | |
| How Much of the Variation in Income | |
| Across Countries Does Education Explain? | |
| Productivity | |
| Measuring Productivity Productivity in the Production Function | |
| Differences in the Level of Productivity | |
| Among Countries Differences in the Growth | |
| Rate of Productivity Among Countries | |
| The Role of Technology in Growth | |
| The Nature of Technological | |
| Progress Modeling the Relationship | |
| Between Technology Creation and Growth | |
| Barriers to International Technology | |
| Transfer Mathematical Appendix? | |
| Incorporating Technological Progress into the Solow Mode? | |
| Steady State | |
| The Effect of a Change in Technology Growth | |
| The Cutting Edge of Technology | |
| The Pace of Technological Change | |
| The Technology Production Function | |
| Differential Technological Progress | |
| Mathematical Appendix: An Improved Version of the Technology Production Function | |
| Efficiency Decomposing | |
| Productivity into Technology and Efficiency | |
| Differences in Efficiency: Case Studies | |
| Types of Inefficiency Mathematical | |
| Appendix: Sectoral Reallocation and the Growth | |
| Rate of Aggregate Productivity | |
| Growth in the Open Economy | |
| Autarky Versus Openness | |
| The Effect of Openness on Economic Growth | |
| Openness and Factor Accumulation | |
| Openness and Productivity Opposition to Openness | |
| Fundamentals | |
| Government Defining Government s | |
| Proper Role in the Economy | |
| How Government Affects Growth | |
| Why Governments Do Things | |
| That Are Bad for Growth Why Poor Countries | |
| Have Bad Governments | |
| Income Inequality Income Inequality: The Facts Sources of Income Inequality | |
| Effect of Income Inequality on Economic Growth | |
| Beyond Income Distribution: Economic Mobility | |
| Culture The Effect of Culture on Economic | |
| Growth What Determines Culture? | |
| Cultural Change | |
| Geography, Climate, and Natural Resources | |
| Geography Climate Natural Resources | |
| Resources and the Environment at the Global | |
| Level Natural Resource Concepts Incorporating | |
| Natural Resources into the Analysis of Economic Growth | |
| Growth and the Environment Mathematical | |
| Appendix: Technological Improvement | |
| Versus Resource Depletion | |
| Conclusion | |
| What We Have Learned and Where We Are Headed | |
| What We Have Learned | |
| What the Future Holds | |
| A Final Thought | |
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David Weil is a professor of economics at Brown University. He received his BA in history from Brown University and his PhD in economics from Harvard University. A former member of the Board of Editors at the American Economic Review, Professor Brown is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
