Mainstream Growth Economists and Capital Theorists : A Survey.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- PART ONE: ORIGINS OF MODERN GROWTH THEORY -- 1 Growth, Technological Progress, and Unemployment in the Thought of the Classical Economists -- 2 The Beginning of the Modern Theory of Growth: The Neo-Keynesians -- 3 Theory of Distribution and Growth: The Old Keynesians -- PART TWO: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE NEOCLASSICAL THEORY OF GROWTH -- 4 Neoclassical Theory of Growth: Factor Substitution, Optimal Growth, and Money Growth -- 5 Technological Progress and Growth in Neoclassical Perception -- 6 Some Accounts of Capital Controversy and Growth -- 7 Theories of Growth and Convergence between Poor and Rich Countries: The Early Development Theories -- Intermezzo: Overall Conclusions about the Evolution of Growth Theories in the First Four Decades of the Postwar Period -- PART THREE: ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY -- 8 Toward the New Theory of Growth: Endogenous Growth and Technological Transformation -- 9 Endogenous Growth: Innovation and New Consumer Goods -- 10 Endogenous Growth and the New Schumpeterian Approach of "Creative Destruction" -- Overall Conclusions about the Survey on Growth Economists and Capital Theorists -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A necessary assessment of modern growth theories within a historical context.

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