Part I. Overview
Chapter 1. The Facts to Be
Explained
Differences in the Level of Income Among Countries
Differences in the Rate of Income Growth Among Countries
Appendix: Measuring and Comparing GDP Using Purchasing Power Parity
Problems
Chapter 2. A Framework for Analysis
The Economics of Sylvania and Freedonia: A Parable
From Parable to Practice
What Can We Learn from Data?
Part II. Factor Accumulation
Chapter 3. Physical
Capital
The Nature of Capital
Capital’s Role in Production
The Solow Model
The Relationship Between Investment and Saving
Appendix: Further Exploration of the Cobb-Douglas Production
Function and the Speed of Convergence in the Solow Model
Chapter 4. Population and Economic Growth
Population and Output over the Long Run
Population Growth in the Solow Model
Explaining Population Growth
Explaining the Fertility Transition
Appendix: A More Formal Description of the Total Fertility Rate,
Life Expectancy, and Net Rate of Reproduction
Chapter 5. Future Population Trends
Forecasting Population
The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change
Chapter 6. Human Capital
Human Capital in the Form of
Health
Human Capital in the Form of Education
How Much of the Variation in Income Across Countries Does Education
Explain?
Part III. Productivity
Chapter 7. Measuring Productivity
Productivity in the Production Function
Differences in the Level of Productivity Among Countries
Differences in the Growth Rate of Productivity Among Countries
Chapter 8. The Role of Technology in Growth
The Nature of
Technological Progress
Modeling the Relationship Between Technology Creation and
Growth
Barriers to International Technology Transfer
Mathematical Appendix:
David Weil is a professor of economics at Brown University. He received his BA in history from Brown University and his PhD in economics from Harvard University. A former member of the Board of Editors at the American Economic Review, Professor Brown is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
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