Introduction

This is the home page for Econ 222B, Theory of Economic Growth. The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. in Bunche 2249. Some of the material below is in Adobe Acrobat format. Use the link below to get the Acrobat Reader if you have not installed the current version.

Class Materials

• Reading List
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• Lecture Notes on "Productivity Differences".
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• Lecture Notes on Growth and Creative Destruction.
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• Lecture Notes on Growth and Population.
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Online Readings

• Acemoglu, Daron, and Fabrizio Zilibotti (1992): Productivity Differences.
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• Aghion, Phillipe, and Peter Howitt (1992): A Model of Growth through Creative Destruction.
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• Banerjee, Abhijit, and Andrew F. Newman (1993): Occupational Choice and the Process of Development.
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• Becker, Gary, Kevin Murphy, and Robert Tamura (1990): Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth.
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• Chari, V.V., Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan (1996): The Poverty of Nations: A Quantitative Investigation.
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• Jones, Charles I. (1998): Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth.
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• Jones, Charles I. (2000): Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run.
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• Jones, Larry E., and Rodolfo Manuelli (1997): The Sources of Growth.
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• Hall, Robert E., and Charles I. Jones (1998): Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?
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• Hansen, Gary D., and Edward C, Prescott (1999): Malthus to Solow.
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• Kremer, Michael (1993): Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990.
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• McGrattan, Ellen R., and James A. Schmitz (1998): Explaining Cross-Country Income Differences.
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• Persson, Torsten, and Guido Tabellini (1994): Is Inequality Harmful for Growth?
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• Prescott, Edward C. (1997): Needed: A Theory of Total Factor Productivity.
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• Romer, Paul (1990): Endogenous Technological Change.
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