Economic Growth: A Unified Approach

ISBN: 9780521725200 出版年：2009 页码：377 de la Grandville Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. Positive Growth Theory: 1. The welfare of society and economic growth 2. The growth process 3. A production function of central importance 4. The CES production function as a general mean (in collaboration with Robert M. Solow) 5. Capital-labour substitution and economic growth (in collaboration with Robert M. Solow) 6. The long-term growth rate as a random variable, with an application to the U.S. Economy Part II. Optimal Growth Theory: 7. Optimal growth theory: an introduction to the calculus of variations 8. Other major tools for optimal growth theory: the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and the Dorfmanian 9. First applications to optimal growth 10. Optimal growth and the optimal savings rate Part III. A Unified Approach: 11. Preliminaries: interest rates and capital valuation 12. From arbitrage to equilibrium 13. Optimal savings: a general approach 14. Problems in growth: common traits between planned economies and poor countries 15. From Ibn Khaldun to Adam Smith, and a proof of Smith's conjecture 16. In conclusion: on the convergence of ideas and values through civilizations Further readings, and data on growth Index.