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*020  $a978-0-393-92078-9$c52,16$qnidottu
*035  $a(FI-MELINDA)007026890
*041  $aeng
*08204$a338.9$223
*100  $aJones, Charles I.$qaut
*24510$aIntroduction to economic growth /$cCharles I. Jones, Dietrich Vollrath.
*250  $aThird edition, international student edition.
*260  $bNorton$c2013
*264 1$aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c2013
*300  $axiv, 306 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c24 cm
*336  $ateksti$btxt$2rdacontent
*337  $akäytettävissä ilman laitetta$bn$2rdamedia
*338  $anide$bnc$2rdacarrier
*500  $aPrevious edition: 2002.
*500  $avalt.tdk
*500  $aECOK-215 TA4c Talouskasvu
*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
*505 0$aIntroduction: the facts of economic growth -- The data of growth and development -- Other "stylized facts" -- The Solow model -- The basic Solow model -- Thecnology and the Solow model -- Evaluating the Solow model -- Growth accounting, the productivity slowdown and the new economy -- Appendix: Closed -form of the Solow model -- Empirical applications of neoclassical growth models -- The Solow model with human capital -- Convergence and explaining differences in growth rates -- The evolution of income distribution -- The economics of ideas -- What is technology? -- The economics of ideas -- Intellectual property rights and the industrial revolution -- Population and ideas -- Data on ideas -- The engine of growth -- Th basic elements of the Romer model -- The economics of the Romer model -- Growth through creative destruction -- The economics of Schumpeterian growth -- Optimal R&D -- Appendix: Solving for the R&D share -- A simple model of growth and development --
*505 0$aThe basic model -- Steady-state analysis -- Technology transfer -- Globalization and trade -- Understanding differences in growth rates -- Social infrastructure and long-run economic performance -- A business investment problem -- Determinants of F -- Determinants of II -- Which investment to make? -- Empircal evidence -- Misallocation and productivity -- The choice of social infrastructure -- Growth miracles and disasters --Population and the origin of sustained economic growth -- Population and living standards -- The Malthusian economy --$aThe transition to sustained growth -- The economics of population growth -- Comparative development -- Alternative theories of endogenous growth -- A simple endogenous growth model: the "AK" model -- Intuition and other growth models -- Externalities and AK models -- Evaluating endogenous growth models -- What is endogenous growth? -- Natural resource and economic growth -- Nonrenewable resources --
*505 0$aQuantifying the importance of natural resources -- Prices as indicators of scarcity -- Implications and explanations of declining factor share -- Gowth and environment -- Understanding economic growth -- Why are we so rich and they so poor? -- What is the engine of economic growth? -- How do we understand growth miracles? -- Appendix A: Mathematical review -- Appendix B: Readings of interest -- Appendix C: Data on economic growth.
*650 0$aEconomic development.
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*700  $aVollrath, Dietrich.$qaut
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Introduction to Economic Growth is the only text to synthesize the journal literature in a way that makes this important field accessible to undergraduates. Charles I. Jones and new co-author Dietrich Vollrath have updated and revised the text to reflect recent advances in Economic Growth Theory in clear, direct language.