Academic Year 2010-2011
Alternative Theories of Economic Growth
Readings
Books
1. Foley, D.K. and Michl, T.R. (1999). Growth and Distribution, Harvard University Press, ch
1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 .
2. Romer, D. (1996). Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill, Boston ch.1, 2 (available at
the Economics library 020 01587)
3. Bhaduri, Macroeconomics: the Dynamics of Commodity Production. London, Macmillan
(chs.2 and 7) (available in English at the Economics Library 020 00770, available in Italian at the
library of Dipartimento Economia Pubblica e Territoriale )
4. Robinson, J. (1964). “A Model of Accumulation”, in her Essay in the Theory of
Growth. St. Martin’s Press (Available in Italian at the Economics Library 110 00348, also
available in English at library of Dipartimento Economia Pubblica e Territoriale)
5. Pasinetti, L. (1974). Growth and Income distribution, Cambridge University Press,
chapters 1, 5. (available in English at the Economics Library 020 00141 and also in Italian 020
00514)
Selected Papers
All the papers can be found at the library of the Faculty of Economics
6. Hahn, F.H. and Matthews, R.C.O. (1964). “The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey”,
Economic Journal vol. 74 (296) pg. 779-902
7. Bhaduri, A. and Marglin, S., (1990). “Unemployment and the real wage: the economic basis
of contesting political ideologies”, Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol. 14 (4) pg. 375-
393
8. Solow, R.M. (1956). “A contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, vol. 70 (1) pg. 65-94
9. Solow, R.M. (1957). “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function” Review of
Economics and Statistics, vol.39 (3) pg. 312-320
10. Romer, P.M. (1986). “Increasing Returns and Long Run Growth”, Journal of Political
Economy, vol. 94 (5) pg. 1002-1037
11. Mankiw, N.G., Romer, D. and Weil, D.N. (1992). “A Contribution to the Empirics of
Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107 (2) pg. 407-437
12. Harrod, R.F. (1939). “An Essay in Dynamic Theory”, The Economic Journal, vol. 49 (193)
pp.14-33
13. Kaldor, N. (1957). “A Model of Economic Growth”, The Economic Journal, vol. 67 (268)
pg. 591-624
14. Solow, R.M. (1994). “Perspectives on Growth Theory” Journal of Economic Perspectives,
vol. 8 (1) pg. 23-44
15. Goodwin, R.M. (1967). “A growth cycle” in Feinstein, C.H. (ed). Socialism, Capitalism and
Economic Growth. London. Cambridge University Press (Economic Library 050 00061)
16. Bhaduri, A. (1975). “On the Analysis between the quantity-and the price-traverse”, Oxford
Economic Papers, vol.27 (3) pg. 455-461
17. Bhaduri,A. 2006. Endogenous economic growth: a new approach, Cambridge Journal of Economics,pp 69-83.
!8.A. Bhaduri. 2007. Growth, Distribution and Innovation,Routledge, London and New York Schumpeter Lectures, Chapters 1 and 4.