A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms and shows how they can be used to analyze the growth process and growth policy design. This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy design. The treatment of growth theory is fully accessible to students with a background no more advanced than elementary calculus and probability theory; the reader need not master all the subtleties of dynamic programming and stochastic processes to learn what is essential about such issues as cross-country convergence, the effects of financial development on growth, and the consequences of globalization. The book, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at Harvard and Brown universities, can be used both by advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference for professional economists in government or international financial organizations.
The Economics of Growth first presents the main growth paradigms: the neoclassical model, the AK model, Romer's product variety model, and the Schumpeterian model. The text then builds on the main paradigms to shed light on the dynamic process of growth and development, discussing such topics as club convergence, directed technical change, the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained growth, general purpose technologies, and the recent debate over institutions versus human capital as the primary factor in cross-country income differences. Finally, the book focuses on growth policies--analyzing the effects of liberalizing market competition and entry, education policy, trade liberalization, environmental and resource constraints, and stabilization policy--and the methodology of growth policy design. All chapters include literature reviews and problem sets. An appendix covers basic concepts of econometrics.
一本全面、嚴謹且最新的成長經濟學入門書，介紹所有主要的成長範式，並展示如何利用這些範式來分析成長過程和成長政策設計。
這本全面的經濟成長入門書呈現了有關成長的主要事實和難題，提出了解釋這些事實所需的簡單方法和模型，使讀者熟悉最新的理論和實證發展，並提供分析政策設計的工具。對於具備基礎微積分和機率論背景的學生來說，成長理論的處理方式完全可理解；讀者不必掌握動態規劃和隨機過程的所有細微之處，就能了解跨國收斂、金融發展對成長的影響以及全球化的後果等重要議題。本書源自作者在哈佛大學和布朗大學教授的課程，適合高年級本科生和研究生使用，也可作為政府或國際金融組織專業經濟學家的參考。
《成長經濟學》首先介紹主要的成長範式：新古典模型、AK模型、羅默的產品多樣性模型和熊彼特模型。接著，文本基於這些主要範式，闡明成長和發展的動態過程，討論如俱樂部收斂、定向技術變革、從馬爾薩斯停滯到持續成長的過渡、通用技術以及最近有關制度與人力資本作為跨國收入差異主要因素的辯論等主題。最後，本書專注於成長政策，分析市場競爭和進入的自由化、教育政策、貿易自由化、環境和資源限制以及穩定政策的影響，以及成長政策設計的方法論。所有章節均包含文獻回顧和習題集。附錄涵蓋計量經濟學的基本概念。
Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France and at the London School of Economics. Aghion is coauthor (with Peter Howitt) of
Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press).
Peter Howitt is Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. Howitt is coauthor (with Philippe Aghion) of
Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1997).
菲利普·阿吉翁（Philippe Aghion）是法國高等研究院（College de France）和倫敦政治經濟學院（London School of Economics）的教授。阿吉翁與彼得·霍伊特（Peter Howitt）共同著作了《內生增長理論》（Endogenous Growth Theory，麻省理工學院出版社）。
彼得·霍伊特是布朗大學（Brown University）社會科學的林·克羅斯特教授（Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences）。霍伊特與菲利普·阿吉翁共同著作了《內生增長理論》（Endogenous Growth Theory，麻省理工學院出版社，1997年）。
