"Papers from the twentieth annual HOPE conference, held 25-27 April 2008 at Duke University ... [addressing] the history of modern growth economics, taking Solow's key papers from the 1950s as its anchor"--P. [1]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Solow residual as a black box : attempts at integrating business cycle and growth theories / Tiago Mata and Francisco Louçã. Does growth have a future? Does growth theory have a future? Are these questions related? / Robert M. Solow -- Reflections / Edwin Burmeister -- Some Swedish stepping-stones to growth economics / Mauro Boianovsky -- Solow's 1956 contribution in the context of the Harrod-Domar model / Harald Hagemann -- A nonlinear history of growth and cycle theories / Lionello F. Punzo -- Trevor Swan and the neoclassical growth model / Robert W. Dimand and Barbara J. Spencer -- Dynamizing stability / Marcel Boumans -- More cobwebs? : Robert Solow, uncertainty, and the theory of distribution / William Darity, Jr. -- The growing of Ramsey's growth model / Pedro Garcia Duarte -- James Tobin and growth theory : financial factors and long-run growth / Robert W. Dimand and Steven N. Durlauf -- Solow and growth accounting : a perspective from quantitative economic history / Nicholas Crafts -- Solow in the tropics / John Toye -- The Solow model, poverty traps, and the foreign aid debate / Brian Snowdon -- Hotelling, Rawls, Solow : how exhaustible resources came to be integrated into the neoclassical growth model / Guido Erreygers -- Solovian and new growth theory from the perspective of Allyn Young on macroeconomic increasing returns / Roger J. Sandilands -- Endogenous growth : valuable advance, substantive misnomer / William J. Baumol -- The rise and fall of cross-country growth regressions / Steven N. Durlauf -- The Solow residual as a black box : attempts at integrating business cycle and growth theories / Tiago Mata and Francisco Louçã.
Series:
History of political economy 0018-2702 ; annual suppl. to v. 41 (2009)
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