Growth and distribution : second edition / Duncan K. Foley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, Duncan K., author.

Michl, Thomas R., author.

Tavani, Daniele, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Authors Foley, Michl, and Tavani offer a major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corporate capitalism, and innovation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Notation

1. Introduction

2. Measuring Growth and Distribution

3. Models of Production

4. The Labor Market

5. Models of Consumption and Saving

6. Classical Models of Economic Growth

7. Induced Technical Change, Growth, and Cycles

8. Biased Technical Change in the Classical Model

9. Endogenous Technical Change

10. The Neoclassical Growth Model

11. Technical Change in the Neoclassical Model

12. Demand-Constrained Economic Growth

13. Land-Limited Growth

14. Exhaustible Resources

15. Corporate Capitalism

16. Government Debt and Social Security: The Overlapping Generations Model

17. Two-Class Models of Wealth Accumulation

18. Global Warming

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780674239418

0674239415

9780674239395

0674239393

OCLC:

1080998318